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Staff

With a small, dedicated staff with more than three decades of combined experience in marine fish conservation, Wild Oceans maximizes its impact while minimizing overhead costs. Being small and agile in the constantly changing environment of ocean conservation is a unique advantage and allows us to tackle tough issues and seize opportunities as they arise.

Meet Our Staff

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    Theresa Labriola
    President
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    Theresa Labriola President

    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.

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