About Us

Paul Adelstein
Actor and Musician

Paul Adelstein is an actor and musician. After attending Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine, he became a founding member of New Crime Productions, a theatre company in his hometown of Chicago, Illinois, whose productions focused on social inequalities. After working with the Steppenwolf Theatre for a number of years, Paul started working primarily in television and film. Credits include the Coen brothers' Intolerable Cruelty, Memoirs of a Geisha, Be Cool, Bedazzled, Prison Break and Grey's Anatomy spinoff, Private Practice. Paul is also a composer and songwriter. His band, Doris, has released two well received albums. In addition, Paul composed the score for the HBO short film Mullitt, as well as scoring television spots for Emily's List and Organ Donors of Illinois, among others.

Kirsten Steward Beckwith
Community Volunteer

Kirsten serves on the Advisory Board of a multicultural program for youth and co-chairs an environmental committee at a local school. Most recently, she worked for SeaChange (now Social Enterprise Alliance), a national nonprofit that connects social entrepreneurs with resources. She has served as a founding Advisory Board Member for the Taproot Foundation as well as for a grant-making foundation dedicated to literacy, journalism and education. She also directed a national educational AmeriCorps program and has product marketing experience for The Learning Company/Mattel and an online education company. Kirsten received her MBA from Harvard Business School and her BS from the University of Illinois.

Cecil Corbin-Mark
WE ACT

Cecil Corbin-Mark is the director of programs for WE ACT for Environmental Justice (WE ACT). Founded in 1988, WE ACT was New York's first environmental justice organization created to improve environmental health and quality of life in communities of color. He works on campaigns that seek to: remove carcinogenic diesel soot from school bus cabins, bring fresh locally grown food into NYC public schools, combat global warming, and build market-based and legislative solutions to protect New York communities from toxic chemicals. Cecil comes from a family that is no stranger to the pursuit of social justice. He is the great nephew of Louis E. Burnham, a co-editor with Paul Robeson of the journal Freedom and a leader of the Alabama-based Southern Negro Youth Congress in the 1940's. Cecil continues the work of his great uncle and several other family members today as he helps to lead WE ACT in its work with residents and the political establishment to create a more just and sustainable future. A lifelong resident of Harlem's Hamilton Heights Historic District (aka Sugar Hill), Cecil holds a BA from Hunter College and a MPhil from the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom.

Antonio Diaz
PODER
Co-Chair

Antonio is the Executive Director of PODER (People Organizing to Demand Environmental and Economic Rights), a community-based organization in San Francisco’s Mission District. He is a nationally known leader in the environmental justice community and is an Advisory Board Member of Corpwatch.

Tina Eshaghpour
Philanthropic and Nonprofit Consultant

Tina is Senior Program Advisor to the Women’s Foundation of California and consults on Women's Environmental Health and Justice issues for other foundations. She has led the Women’s Foundation's environmental health and justice program since its inception in 2002. She is the author of "Confronting Toxic Contamination in Our Communities: Women’s Health and California's Future," a seminal report on women's environmental health in California. Tina has a background in public health, social marketing, immigrant and refugee health and environmental justice. Tina is currently a member of the steering committee for the Health and Environmental Funders Network (HEFN), co-chairs its Women’s Environmental Health working group, and serves on the HEFN-CA advisory board. Tina’s passion about the intersection of environmental and reproductive justice is fueled by her two young children.

Kathy Gerwig
Kaiser Permanente
Co-ChairKathy is Vice-President for Work Place Safety and Environmental Stewardship Officer at Kaiser-Permanente. Kathy is responsible for developing, organizing and managing a nationwide environmental initiative for Kaiser Permanente. She is a visionary leader in moving industry away from the use of toxic chemicals, and is on the Board of Directors of Health Care Without Harm.

Horace Green
Green & Humbert
Partner

Horace Green is a name partner in the law firm of Green & Humbert.  He represents employers and businesses in employment, employee benefits, insurance, real estate, and general business litigation.  Mr. Green is a former member of the California State Bar Committee on Professional Responsibility and Conduct and a former Chair and current Vice Chair of the Employee Benefits Committee of the American Bar Association Tort, Trial and Insurance Practice Section.  In 2005 and in 2009 Mr. Green was named as one of Northern California 's "Super Lawyers" by San Francisco Magazine.  Mr. Green earned his J.D. in 1984 from Stanford University and his B.A. from the University of California at Santa Barbara.

Roger Kim
Asian Pacific Environmental Network
Policy Director

Roger Kim is the Policy Director of the Asian Pacific Environmental Network (APEN). APEN organizes and builds the leadership of Asian immigrant and refugee communities to achieve environmental and social justice. APEN has successfully developed cutting-edge community organizing models in the Laotian refugee community in Richmond and the Chinese immigrant community in Oakland. APEN's grassroots members have won several significant environmental justice campaigns and, through APEN's Vote Action program, have educated and turned-out several thousand Chinese and Laotian voters in their native languages on key ballot issues. Mr. Kim brings his background in the social justice, environmental, and philanthropic sectors to the environmental justice mission APEN. Before joining APEN, he worked at the San Francisco Foundation as the Environment Program Fellow and at Global Green USA on advancing energy-efficient and green building practices in affordable housing developments. In addition, Mr. Kim is on the board of the Center for Environmental Health, the Public Policy Committee of the Greenbelt Alliance, and the Advisory Committee to Congresswoman Barbara Lee.

Katie Silberman, J.D.
Science and Environmental Health Network

Katie is the Associate Director for the Science and Environmental Health Network. Prior to joining the Board, Katie was CEH’s Associate Director and Policy Program Director for five years. Katie has also worked with such organizations as Breast Cancer Action, Communities for a Better Environment and the Center on Race, Poverty & the Environment. Katie graduated from Brown University and the University of California, Hastings College of the Law.

Lawrence Smith, CPA
Smith and Company CPAs
Treasurer

Lawrence Smith, CPA, is the founder and principal at Smith and Company CPAs. He provides fiscal and managerial oversight to CEH's operations. He is currently serving in his second stint on the CEH board, having first joined in 1997.