Listen to the audio from the meeting
Meet the ELI team
John Pendergrass, Vice-President, leads the Research and Policy Division, which conducts legal and policy research and analyses of pressing environmental and natural resource issues in the U.S. and globally. He also leads the Institute's Educational Program and the Institute's Publications Division.
Before becoming Vice President, he was a Senior Attorney, Director of the Judicial Education, State Center, and Climate and Energy Programs, and Co-Director of International Programs at ELI.
Cynthia R. Harris is the director of Tribal Programs and the deputy director of the Center for State, Tribal, and Local Environmental Programs at ELI. Her projects focus on Indigenous issues, climate change adaptation, water quality and conservation, product life-cycle management, and green infrastructure. She presently coordinates ELI’s project team administering the Local Government Environmental Assistance Network an EPA Compliance Assistance Center.
Elissa Torres-Soto is a Staff Attorney at ELI. Her work currently focuses on international projects, particularly on the Inter-American region. She works on a variety of issues at ELI, ranging from the mitigation of environmental, social, and economic impacts of gold mining in the Peruvian Amazon to domestic environmental and natural resources law and policy topics.