WASHINGTON, D.C. - EM leaders met last week with stakeholders representing organizations near cleanup sites during the 35th annual Alliance for Nuclear Accountability (ANA) DC Days. The alliance is a grassroots network of organizations working around sites in the nuclear weapons complex on health, cleanup and weapons issues. Each year, ANA members visit the nation’s capital to meet with a variety of administration officials and members of Congress. Pictured from left are Don Hancock, administrator, Southwest Research and Information Center; Alyssa Petit, management and program analyst, EM Office of Intergovernmental and Stakeholder Programs; Kristen Ellis, EM acting director of regulatory and policy affairs; Miya Burke, program manager, Hanford Challenge; Melissa Bumstead, founder, Parents Against Santa Susana Field Lab; Joceline Nahigian, EM director of intergovernmental and stakeholder programs; Jeff Avery, EM principal deputy assistant secretary; William “Ike" White, EM senior advisor; Rennitta Johnson, community education lead, Georgia Women’s Action for New Directions (GA WAND); and Janie Scott, Burke County deputy director, GA WAND.
Source: U.S. Dept. of Energy, Office of Environmental Management