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SPEECH Welcomes New Board Members

SPEECH is thrilled to welcome three new board members!

Ruth Shearer

Ruth is a retired toxicologist. A longtime, active member of the Panorama retirement community in Lacey, Ruth serves on the boards of Panorama's Democratic Study Club and the Green Team. She is also a current board member of the LOTT Recharge Infiltration Study.

She teaches an environmental class at her church for 2nd through 5th graders, and has even developed her own curriculum using the 1988 oil spill response and recovery of the Nestucca in Gray's Harbor. Ruth wrote a book a couple years ago called, Adventures in Seeking Environmental Justice in the 1980's, which is a fascinating look back at Ruth's experiences as a toxicologist and frequently called upon expert witness for court cases during the Reagan Administrations. She served on the water and sewer commission of a water-sewer district that later became METRO of Seattle.

Her current passions, in addition to all that, are the prevention of, and causes of cancer, and how chemicals cause cancer; GMO, fluoride, water/wastewater issues, nuclear waste, stopping the Keystone XL pipeline and the Bristol Bay Pebble Mine, and boat sewage issues in Puget Sound.

Aude Jouanguy

Aude spent most of her childhood in Côte d'Ivoire where she experienced cultural diversity and considers it to be a unique experience. In 1999, Côte d'Ivoire underwent a military coup d'état causing many people to flee the country.

After spending four years in France, Aude was not really pleased with the French education system and decided to study in the United States. She has since earned both her Associate of Arts and Bachelor of Arts degrees majoring in international studies, political science, and economics in the State of Washington.

Since September 2013, Aude has been an intern with SPEECH and enjoys writing articles related to social, political and economic issues.

Doug Canning

Doug has worked in environmental assessment, management, and policy development since graduating from TESCfs Ecology and Chemistry of Pollution program in 1975, first through his Seattle firm, Northwest Environmental Consultants, Inc., and then for the Shorelands Management Program at the state Department of Ecology. Some of the major projects he worked on at Ecology included the Nisqually River Basin Management Plan, a dunes management plan for the southwest coast, and a coastal erosion management program for the Puget Sound. While with Ecology, he began working on climate change assessment and sea level rise preparedness in the late 1980s, and convened the first Pacific Northwest regional climate change symposium in 1989. Much of his climate change work was carried out in cooperation with the Climate Impacts Group at the University of Washington where he was an affiliate associate professor.

In January 2006, he "escaped" from Ecology by taking retirement. He continued his sea level rise work with the Climate Impacts Group until 2008. In recent years he has been carrying out a volunteer study of the birds of West Rocky Prairie Wildlife Area for the state Department of Fish and Wildlife.

Doug says that his years of experience on the Nisqually Reach Nature Center board should also be of benefit to SPEECH.


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