Environmental Defense Hires Elena Craft

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Media Contact: Chris Smith, Environmental Defense, 512.691.3451-w or 512.659.9264-c   csmith@environmentaldefense.org
 
(Houston – January 9, 2008) Elena Craft, Ph.D., has joined Environmental Defense as Air Quality Specialist for the greater Houston area.
 
Craft will formulate and implement outreach strategies to promote adoption of air pollution reduction measures seeking support from local government, civic, business and other influential groups, especially with regard to diesel vehicles and equipment, and industrial air toxic emissions. She will also work with Environmental Defense staff in Austin and other offices to design regulatory, voluntary, legislative, contractual or technical solutions to air quality challenges.
 
Previous roles include scientific consulting and research related to human health risk assessment. Craft’s research using a variety of molecular biological techniques has been published in peer-reviewed publications and presented at professional scientific symposia.
 
Craft earned her doctorate in toxicology from Duke University’s Nicholas School of the Environment and Earth and Ocean Sciences and received the Karen Wetterhahn memorial award for research in metals from the Superfund Basic Research Program in 2002, as well as a Young Scientist Award at the Fifth International Meeting on Metallothionein in Beijing, China in 2005.
 
 
# # #
 
Environmental Defense, a leading national nonprofit organization, represents more than 500,000 members. Since 1967, Environmental Defense has linked science, economics, law and innovative private-sector partnerships to create breakthrough solutions to the most serious environmental problems. www.environmentaldefense.org

With more than 3 million members, Environmental Defense Fund creates transformational solutions to the most serious environmental problems. To do so, EDF links science, economics, law, and innovative private-sector partnerships to turn solutions into action. edf.org