Board of Directors
John Fogarty – Chairman of the Board
John is a physician trained in family medicine and public health, and has worked on energy and climate change issues for many years. He has worked with the Indian Health Service in Pueblo and Navajo communities since 1997 and has taught courses on human rights and health at the University of New Mexico. He also serves on the national Board of Directors for Physicians for Social Responsibility.
Mariel Nanasi – Executive Director and President of the Board
Adopted in 2010, Mariel led the effort to establish New Mexico’s breakthrough carbon pollution reduction program. When Governor Martinez refused to publish the rule, New Energy Economy sued her and won in the New Mexico Supreme Court. Mariel is also a civil rights and criminal defense lawyer. Additionally, she serves on the Board of the Santa Fe Art Institute. Understanding the urgency of a changing climate and wanting to create a healthy and sustainable future for our children, Mariel has made a personal and professional commitment to climate leadership.
Michael McCally – Vice President
Dr. McCally is a public health physician and environmental heath scientist. Dr. McCally was Treasurer of International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War (IPPNW) when it won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1985. Dr. McCally is a leader in the international effort to increase physician involvement in the public health response to global warming. Dr. McCally is also on the national Board for the US Green Building Council.
Katie Cullen
Katie Cullen is a Partner and founding member of SC Partners LLC where she provides strategic legislative consulting support to the firm’s clients before the Congress, the White House and Federal Agencies. In addition, she provides sophisticated and technical advice to start-up companies and hedge funds on innovative and emerging energy and software technologies. During her 30 years in Washington, Cullen also served as Vice President of Public Affairs at the United States Conference of Mayors, the leading nonpartisan organization for the nation’s mayors.
Advisory Board
Mike Pertschuk
Mike Pertschuk was on the New Energy Economy Board of Directors for 6 years and now serves on the Advisory Board. Pertschuk was named by President Carter as Chair of the Federal Trade Commission, was former President of Common Cause, and has written more than 20 guides and 5 books on effective – and ineffective – strategies for citizen advocacy, especially Public health advocacy.
Subhankar Banerjee
Subhankar is a photographer, writer, educator and activist. Over the past decade he has been a leading international voice on issues of arctic conservation, indigenous human rights, resource development and climate change. More recently he has also been focusing on global forest deaths from climate change. His photographs, writing and lectures have reached tens of millions of people around the world. In 2010, he founded the blog CLIMATESTORYTELLERS.ORG. He is currently editing an anthology titled Arctic Voices (New York: Seven Stories Press, 2012), is featured in a solo show at the Amon Carter museum of American Art in Fort Worth, Texas, and his work is included in Earth Now: American Photographers and the Environment.
Dan Klein
Daniel E. Klein, President of Twenty-First Strategies, has over 30 years of consulting experience in energy, environmental, and economic analysis. For many years a Senior Vice President and Director of ICF Resources Incorporated, he founded Twenty-First Strategies in 1995. Over the course of his consulting career, Mr. Klein has conducted hundreds of projects related to energy and environmental concerns, energy markets and forecasting, electric utility fuel use, coal supply, transportation, and antitrust issues. His work in recent years has focused primarily on climate change, energy supply and usage, and related issues, both on policy issues from the government side as well as strategies for the private sector. Mr. Klein earned a Bachelor’s degree from MIT and an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.
