Jerry Filbin

Jerry Filbin, from the EPA Office of Policy, Economics and Innovation is the EPA's agency-wide coordinator for Community-based Environmental Protection (see: http://www.epa.gov/ecocommunity). In that role he coordinates communication and policy analysis activities among a network of EPA programmatic and regional practitioners assisting community-based projects for environmental protection. He also supports regional activities by managing a headquarters communications activity that includes an Agency website, an on-line newsletter and distribution of information products for public use. Jerry joined the EPA in 1992 after several years as a researcher and college instructor. His work at the EPA has included policy development and coordination for EPA's community-base approach; risk assessment for ecosystem and watershed protection, and working with Tribal governments in the pacific-northwest on risk assessment and risk communication on risks related to fish consumption. His undergraduate degree from Suffolk University in Boston was in science and education, and his MS and PhD degrees in ecology are from Wayne State University in Detroit. He continues to teach part-time at Johns Hopkins University in the graduate school of Engineering. He lives in Falls Church, Virginia where he participates in a local watershed protection effort and serves on the board of directors for metropolitan Washington's largest community-based HIV/AIDS services organization.