Our Team

With nearly 20 years of organizing experience, Leigh-Anne is passionate about recruiting, training and supporting people who want to take action for public health, the environment and other causes. From 2008 to 2012, Leigh-Anne coordinated the Student PIRGs’ New Voters Project, which helped more than 300,000 people register to vote and contacted more than 1 million people to get out and vote. Leigh-Anne started her career as a Campus Organizer with MASSPIRG, during which time she campaigned (with a coalition that included Toxics Action Center) to make the state’s “Filthy Five” power plants clean up or shut down. Leigh-Anne is a Massachusetts native and a graduate of Fordham University.

Max was born and raised in Hawaii where he became passionate about making a difference on plastic pollution. Max loves training and empowering people and doing his part to create the next wave of activists. Max launched his career in 2016 by running canvass offices with the Fund for the Public Interest on behalf of Environment Oregon and OSPIRG for three years. Max graduated from Lewis and Clark College.

Janet Domenitz is the Executive Director of MASSPIRG Education Fund. Since 1989, Janet has coordinated policy research and public education for the largest public interest group in Massachusetts. She also serves on the board of Massachusetts Common Cause, which recognized her with its 2005 Distinguished Citizen Award, and previously served on the national governing board of Common Cause. Janet is also president of the Consumer Federation of America, and was a founding member of Earth Day Greater Boston. She joined the MASSPIRG staff in 1980 after graduating from Brandeis University. She lives in Cambridge with her husband and two sons, and serves on the school committee of her synagogue.

Johanna is the senior director of Environment America’s campaign for 100% renewable energy, where she directs strategy and staff for Environment America’s energy campaigns at the local, state and national level. Johanna has spent more than 20 years on environmental organizing and public interest advocacy and in prior positions, led public health campaigns to restrict smoking in all workplaces, helped stop the construction of a new nuclear reactor on the shores of the Chesapeake Bay and helped build the support necessary to pass leading energy efficiency legislation at the state level in Maryland. Today, Johanna lives in Amherst, Massachusetts, where she is active in local politics, enjoys growing dahlias, and spending time outside with her family.

Johanna is the senior director of Environment America’s campaign for 100% renewable energy, where she directs strategy and staff for Environment America’s energy campaigns at the local, state and national level. Johanna has spent more than 20 years on environmental organizing and public interest advocacy and in prior positions, led public health campaigns to restrict smoking in all workplaces, helped stop the construction of a new nuclear reactor on the shores of the Chesapeake Bay and helped build the support necessary to pass leading energy efficiency legislation at the state level in Maryland. Today, Johanna lives in Amherst, Massachusetts, where she is active in local politics, enjoys growing dahlias, and spending time outside with her family.

Janet Domenitz is the Executive Director of MASSPIRG Education Fund. Since 1989, Janet has coordinated policy research and public education for the largest public interest group in Massachusetts. She also serves on the board of Massachusetts Common Cause, which recognized her with its 2005 Distinguished Citizen Award, and previously served on the national governing board of Common Cause. Janet is also president of the Consumer Federation of America, and was a founding member of Earth Day Greater Boston. She joined the MASSPIRG staff in 1980 after graduating from Brandeis University. She lives in Cambridge with her husband and two sons, and serves on the school committee of her synagogue.

Bernadette Del Chiaro is the Executive Director of the California Solar and Storage Association. Previously, she directed Environment California’s Clean Energy Program. She has been a leader in California’s rooftop solar revolution, leading the successful Million Solar Roofs campaign and winning one of the first renewable portfolio standards, with the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power. She is a graduate of the University of California at Berkeley and of Green Corps, the nation’s most respected field school for environmental organizing. During her stint with Green Corps, Bernadette worked with Community Action Works (then called Toxics Action Center) to clean up the Sooty Six coal-fired power plants in Connecticut. After graduating from the Green Corps program, she was the Organizing Director of Toxics Action Center, helping to build the organization from a four-person, two-state operation into a program that covered all of New England. Bernadette lives with her family in Sacramento, Calif.

Deirdre Cummings is MASSPIRG’s Legislative Director. Deirdre has led campaigns to get lead out of drinking water at schools and daycare centers, protect student loan borrowers from deceptive and predatory lending practices, improve public records law and require all state spending to be transparent, reduce costs of health insurance and prescription drugs, and more. Deirdre also oversees a Consumer Action Center in Weymouth, Mass., which has mediated 18,000 complaints and returned $5 million to Massachusetts consumers since 1989. Deirdre currently resides in Maynard, Mass. Over the years, as an organizer, she has visited all but one of the state’s 351 towns (Gosnold being the exception). She is a 1986 graduate of the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.

John Rumpler is Senior Attorney and Director of Environment America’s Clean Water program.
John’s areas of expertise include lead and other toxic threats to drinking water, factory farms and other sources of agribusiness pollution, algal blooms, fracking and the federal Clean Water Act. He has testified before Congress and co-authored several reports on fracking, agribusiness pollution and lead in schools’ drinking water. He previously worked as a staff attorney for Alternatives for Community & Environment and Tobacco Control Resource Center. John graduated from Tufts University and lives in Brookline, Mass.

Yana Kucher is the Director of Field Analytics and Planning for The Public Interest Network and Chair of the Zero Out Toxics program for the network. Yana has overseen multiple campaigns to protect the public against toxic health threats for both PIRG and Environment California. She graduated from the University of Arizona in 1997, after which she spent two years in the Peace Corps. Yana lives in Denver with her family.

Andy MacDonald is the National Organizing Director of the Student PIRGs, overseeing staff who organize students on 38 college campuses in nine states. For nearly four decades, Andy has been part of one of the most successful organizing programs in the country, involving thousands of college student volunteers and interns, maintaining a funding base to sustain the program, and serving as an “activist pipeline” for future staff and engaged citizens. The student program has also played a major part in hundreds of successful environmental and public interest projects, including the signature-gathering effort for the 1986 Hazardous Waste Cleanup Initiative in Massachusetts, which led directly to the creation of Toxics Action Center and Community Action Works. Andy is a 1983 graduate of Cornell University and he lives in Amherst, Mass.

Faye Park is the President of PIRG and Executive Vice President of The Public Interest Network. As president of PIRG, Faye has been quoted in major news outlets, including CBS News and The Washington Post, about issues ranging from getting toxic chemicals out of children’s products to protecting Americans from predatory lending practices. She began her public interest career as a student volunteer with MASSPIRG Students at Williams College. After graduating in 1992, Faye began working with the Student PIRGs in California as a campus organizer and organizing director, working on campaigns to help students register to vote and to promote recycling. Faye lives in Denver, Colo., with her family.

Leslie Samuelrich is President of Green Century Capital Management, an environmentally responsible investment firm. Green Century is the first family of fossil fuel free, diversified and responsible mutual funds, allowing investors to match their support of a transition to clean energy and sustainable businesses with their investment choices. Leslie’s more than three decades of organizing experience includes her work as Executive Director of Green Corps, the field school for environmental organizing, which worked on behalf of Toxics Action Center on the 1992 Make Polluters Pay ballot initiative campaign. Leslie was also previously the Chief of Staff for Corporate Accountability International. Leslie graduated from Boston College in 1985 and lives in Wakefield, Mass.

Tom Subak is the founder of the Re/Imagination Lab – a nonprofit organization that advances the missions of social impact organizations by providing actionable insights about consumer digital behavior.
With a thirty-year proven track record of driving social sector transformation and digital innovation, Tom has overseen everything from local, state, and national political campaigns; envisioned, launched, scaled, and sold an internet strategy consulting firm; and led transformational efforts at Planned Parenthood Federation of America, most recently as the Chief Strategy Officer and Assistant to the President.
He is known as a bold visionary and serial transformer. Cecile Richards credited Tom as the person who “made it happen” when discussing Planned Parenthood’s digital transformation in her New York Times best-selling book Make Trouble.