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Jon Hinck is an American environmentalist, lawyer and politician. He is currently of counsel to Fitzgerald Law Group, a plaintiffs\u2019 mass tort firm in Portland, Maine. With a background in public service, Jon served three terms in the Maine House of Representatives where he co-chaired the Joint Committee on Energy & Utilities. He also served one term on the Portland City Council. Previously, Jon was the Acting Attorney General for the Republic of Palau and where he successfully litigated cases that enabled the Pacific island state to gain its sovereignty in 1994. He first practiced law first in California where, as an associate with Lieff, Cabraser & Heimann, he represented fishers and native villagers as plaintiffs\u2019 class counsel in the Exxon Valdez oil spill case. As part of his legal work, Jon filed the first statewide and later multistate lawsuits against oil companies for MTBE groundwater contamination. He has litigated mass tort cases arising from defective drugs such as Baycol, Fleet Phospho-Soda, Levaquin and Trovan. Jon also worked as Staff Attorney with the Natural Resources Council of Maine, Maine\u2019s leading environmental advocacy group, where he promoted renewable energy and worked to control mercury pollution and other toxics.\u00a0 In 2004, he led the successful effort to enact Maine\u2019s first-in-the-nation manufacturer responsibility electronic waste law.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With expertise in policy analysis, issue advocacy, politics, government and nonprofit administration, Jon has worked at local, state, national and international levels to advocate for critical environmental and social issues. In 1979, Jon co-founded Greenpeace USA and later led the worldwide program for Greenpeace International and played key roles in many successful campaigns. He served as an NGO delegate to the 1997 U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change in Kyoto. He served on the advisory board of the U.S. Congress\u2019s Office of Technology’ Assessment on Wastes in Marine Environments. He is the author of The Republic of Palau and the United States: Self-determination Becomes the Price of Free Association, 78 Cal. L. Rev. 915 (1990) and numerous articles and op-eds in popular press. He is currently a member of the two national non-profit boards: Greenpeace, Inc. and Upstream. Jon holds degrees from Cal Berkeley Law and the University of Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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\nLydia is from a working-class suburb of Los Angeles County, a first generation Mexican-American, and an organizer first and foremost. Lydia has spent most of her career immersed in the US climate movement and most recently served as the Executive Director of the Power Shift Network. Lydia attended UCLA for her undergraduate education where she was involved with student-initiated, student-run social justice service organizations. After college, she was a community organizer for the Sierra Club in Texas where she led two major \u201cBeyond Coal\u201d campaigns. In 2015 Lydia earned a Master of Public Administration degree at NYU\u2019s Wagner Graduate School of Public Service, specializing in nonprofit management. Lydia is currently the Deputy Director of Grants and Powerbuilding at the Equity Fund. 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