From: ndallen@r-node.gts.org (Nigel Allen)
Subject: Green Corps Press Luncheon to Detail Work in 30 Cities
Organization: Echo Beach, Toronto
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 07:18:24 GMT

Here is a press release from the Green Corps.

 Green Corps Press Luncheon to Detail Work in 30 Cities
 To: Assignment Desk, Daybook Editor, Environment Writer
 Contact: Mary Ann Sandretti or Phil Sparks, for the Energy
          Efficiency Education Project, 202-682-1270

   News Advisory:

   Green Corps, an independent national organization training young
environmental leaders to become field organizers and political
activists, will hold a press luncheon to detail its work in 30 cities
and 25 states, on Friday, Nov. 20, at 12:30 p.m., in the Zenger Room
of the National Press Club.  (See state-by-state listing of Green
Corps participants.)
   Green Corps is primarily funded by the U.S. Public Interest
Research Group (U.S. PIRG), and is supported by such organizations as
the Natural Resources Defense Council, the Audubon Society, Citizen
Action and the Sierra Club.  Participants in the initial one-year
training class of environmental leaders were chosen from more than
1,000 college graduate applicants.  With an individual stipend of
$13,500 for the yearlong program, Green Corps participants were given
a two-month "boot camp" in Boston this summer, where they were
trained and briefed by many of the current leading environmental
leaders in the country.
   Since being deployed to the field to work in grassroots campaigns
across the country, Green Corps participants have worked on voter
registration campaigns, ballot initiatives, door-to-door organizing,
and community organizing efforts.
   Participating in the press luncheon briefing will be Gene
Karpinski, executive director of U.S. PIRG, and Gina Collins,
executive director of Green Corps.  Background information on each of
the 30 state and local projects Green Corps participants are working
on will be available at the press conference.

                 Green Corps Field Organizers
                      Placement List

   San Francisco - Marika Holmgren, 415-398-4404
   Los Angeles - Parker Blackman, 213-892-1500, and
                 Tommy Mooers, 310-287-2210
   San Diego - Pete Smith, 619-692-0905
   Denver - Steffanie Clothier, 303-335-1862
   New Haven, Conn. - David Leavitt, 203-397-8657
   Washington D.C. - Njoki Njehu, 202-547-1141
   Tallahassee, Fla. - Kelly McCrystal, 904-224-5304
   Boise, Idaho - Josh Marks, 208-342-7055
   Chicago - Becky Dinwoodie, 312-341-0814
   Bloomington, Ind. - Denise Travers, 812-855-4872 or 812-855-1231
   New Orleans - Sarah Jaynes, 504-522-1394
   Baltimore - Elizabeth Kelly, 410-332-0025
   Boston - Ellen Stein, 617-292-4800
   Ann Arbor, Mich. - Aiko Schaefer, 313-662-6597
   Lansing, Mich. - Laura Olson, 517-336-9927
   Minneapolis - Carolyn Gold, 612-379-3853
   Portsmouth, N.H. - Mark Wilhelms, 603-431-4948
   Princeton, N.J. - Kelly Wark, 215-829-1760
   Ithaca, N.Y. - Heather Collis, 607-272-7849
   New York - Annie Keating, 212-924-3870
   Albany, N.Y. - Matt Harvey, 518-436-0876 or 518-436-0268
   Chapel Hill, N.C. - Gwen Robinson, 919-967-4600
   Columbus, Ohio - Ted Halstead, 614-299-7652
   Portland, Ore. - Monica Bond, 503-231-4181
   Philadelphia - Colin Yost, 215-829-1760
   Pittsburgh - Craig Melodia, 412-471-1785
   Providence, R.I. - Sarah Forslund, 401-861-7052
   Nashville, Tenn. - Kelly Collings, 615-885-6411
   Austin, Texas - Larry Warshaw, 512-320-8281
   Burlington, Vt. - Tom Gilbert, 802-655-5990
   Seattle - Adam Ruben, 206-322-9064

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