Staff

Theresa has a strong advocacy background, pursuing legal and grassroots solutions to environmental pollution and the over-exploitation of our natural resources. Theresa has worked as a fisheries advocate in the northeast and Mid-Atlantic, building successful campaigns to restore our oceans by protecting forage fish like menhaden and herring. As an environmental litigator, she prosecuted lawsuits against some of the most egregious polluters of our air and water, including those who illegally released millions of pounds of pollutants from oil refineries into our air, discharged excess metals from coal plants into our water, and failed to properly treat municipal stormwater and sewage. She serves as a member of the Permanent Advisory Committee to advise the U.S. Commissioners to the Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Commission and the General Advisory Committee to the U.S. Section to the Inter-American Tropical Tuna Commission. Theresa received her law degree from Vermont Law School and holds a Bachelor of Science in Education and Ecology from Cornell University.

Zane brings a strong advocacy and organizational leadership profile to Wild Oceans, promoting people-centered, resource-conscious, and evidence-based policy solutions to environmental problems. Zane has predominantly worked on fisheries issues in the New England and Mid-Atlantic regions, building diverse coalitions to protect forage fish and advance ecosystem-based fishery management to conserve our oceans. Zane’s past roles in non-profit, federal and state government, and policy research labs have given him broad experience with coastal resilience, pollution, and fisheries topics. Zane earned his Bachelor’s degree in International and Public Affairs from Brown University and his Masters’s in Public Policy from the Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy at the University of Virginia.