Sentences with phrase «founder of the advocacy group»
Commenting on the new body, Alain Trautmann, a cell biologist at the Cochin Institute in Paris and a founder of the advocacy group Sauvons la Recherche, says: «In France we have a technique that whenever you want to bury a problem, you create a commission to write a report about it.»
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«Cutting back on alcohol represents a real step that a breast cancer survivor can take to reduce her risk of recurrence,» says Marisa Weiss, MD, the president and founder of the advocacy group Breastcancer.org.
«As parents we believe that every child deserves an excellent public education,» said Natalie Beyer, a member of the Board of Education in Durham, North Carolina and a founder of the advocacy group Public Schools NC.
He is most recently the founder of the advocacy group 350.org which has led campaigns against the Keystone XL oil pipeline and on behalf of campus divestment from fossil fuel companies.
Woman's crusade for children - In Ontario Canada, Grandmother, founder of advocacy group (Cangrands), plans demonstration for kinship families.
Not exact matches
«In 2016, renewables received about 100 times more in federal subsidies than nuclear plants,» Michael Shellenberger, founder of the Berkeley, California - based, pro-nuclear advocacy group Environmental Progress, wrote in an email to Grist.
Gary Hirshberg, founder of Stonyfield and chairman of of the labeling advocacy group, Just Label It, believes that Republicans can try to reverse regulations, but they can not turn back the clean food movement that is underway.
Following Chan's appearance, the founder of ethics advocacy group Democracy Watch said he plans to file a formal complaint with the lobbying commissioner.
says David Marlett, founder and executive director of the National Crowdfunding Association, an industry advocacy group.
Further, if the payment were a loan from Cohen, Trump may have had a duty to report it in his June 2017 financial disclosure form to the Office of Government Ethics, said Trevor Potter, a former Republican FEC commissioner and founder of campaign finance advocacy group Campaign Legal Center, in a statement.
But Mercer Bullard, professor of law at the University of Mississippi Law School and founder of Fund Democracy, an advocacy group for mutual fund shareholders, told ThinkAdvisor on Thursday that «the plaintiffs have hurt their cause by delaying» filing a suit until now.»
«We tried this legislative approach,» said Mr. Barden, a founder and managing director of Sandy Hook Promise, a nonprofit advocacy group created after the massacre.
The recommendation is part of a comment letter signed by 58 people who are, in the words of the petition, «business persons; members of angel groups, trade associations and advocacy groups; partners and associates of venture capital funds; startup founders; individual angel investors; and other persons interested in the health and vibrancy of America's startup ecosystem.»
He is the founder and convener of the Asylum Advocacy Group which works closely in partnership with the All Party Parliamentary Group on International Religious Freedom or Belief.
The other founders of the group who have been working very hard to promote and emphasize the importance of health advocacy made single served pizzas from coconut flour.
Award - winnning author, L.R.Knost, is the founder and director of the children's rights advocacy and family consulting group, Little Hearts / Gentle Parenting Resources, and Editor - in - Chief of Holistic Parenting Magazine.
About 1.5 million people in the United States have peanut allergies, and the majority of the fatal reactions occur in teenagers, said Anne Munoz - Furlong, founder of the Food Allergy and Anaphylaxis Network, a food - allergy advocacy group in Fairfax, Va..
Susan Avia - Smith, founder of the US veteran's advocacy group VET - WOW in Seattle, Washington, revealed in an interview on Al Jazeera, «People can not conceive how badly wounded these [US veterans] are.
«It's trying to confuse people, but it doesn't substantially change anything,» said Diane Venezia Livingston, a mother of three and founder of Port Washington Advocacy for Public Education, a group that opposes tying test scores to teacher evaluations.
Adam Green, one of the founders of the Progressive Change Campaign Committee, an advocacy group, said the announcement on Wednesday «should be welcome news for Bernie Sanders supporters.»
Marine scientist Kevin McAllister, founder and president of water quality advocacy group Defend H20, called the number of plastic bags stuck in tree branches and scattered on local beaches «omnipresent.»
On Monday, Kevin McAllister, the founder of the environmental advocacy group Defend H2O, repeated his call for restrictions on pesticide use in tidal wetlands.
The potential new law comes after years of lobbying by community groups to remove the facility from the neighborhood, according to Luis Garden Acosta, founder of El Puente, a local advocacy organization.
«It's about time that the communities wake up to understand that we are not trying to destroy Catholic schools or yeshivas,» said Mark Appel, founder of Voice of Justice, an advocacy group.
Joe Pinion, 34, is African - American, founder of the Conservative Color Coalition, a spokesman for climate change advocacy group RepublicEn, and a prominent political commentator on CNN, MSNBC and Fox News Radio.
The Third Point C.E.O. serves on the board of StudentsFirstNY, a pro-charter advocacy group whose board members also include former schools chancellor Joel Klein and Success Academy Charter Schools founder Eva Moskowitz.
«It's been really good for progressives that there's been kind of a race among potential presidential candidates to not just be on board, but be leaders on issues like Medicare for all, fighting for Dreamers and fighting against Trump's giveaways to billionaires and giant corporations,» said Adam Green, a founder of the Progressive Change Campaign Committee, a liberal advocacy group.
Mr. Matthiessen, 53, a former president of Riverkeeper, an environmental advocacy group, is the political strategist, founder and director of Move NY.
Considered as a group, the careers of all of NPA's founders indicate that advocacy work need not harm careers and indeed may be advantageous, providing valuable connections, confidence, and leadership and communication skills.
This year's Action Award honorees include global leaders in the fight to end cancer as we know it; a world leader in advancing the emerging field of regenerative medicine and game - changing cell therapy medical treatments; the president of a non-profit group focused on developing cures for chronic, debilitating and fatal diseases; a sickle cell and stem cell advocate and founder / science administrator of the Axis Advocacy; and the founding director of the Institute for Integrated Cell - Material Sciences (iCeMS) at Japan's Kyoto University.
Aaron is also the founder of Rocky Mountain Men's Rights Advocacy (MRA), a local men's rights group based in Denver.
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Over the next year, Aaron Tang and Ethan Hutt, the energetic founders of a new education advocacy group, aim to get 1 million middle school, high school, and college students to sign a petition calling for high - quality public education for all students, not just those in suburban and middle - class neighborhoods.
The school choice advocacy group receives the bulk of its funding from the Walton Family Foundation, established by the founders of the world's largest retailer, Wal - Mart.
The founder of a grassroots public school advocacy group based in northern Wisconsin says Rep. Mary Czaja backs «draconian» budget cuts to public education at the behest of Republican party leadership.
Grant Callen, founder and president of the school choice advocacy group Empower Mississippi, said his organization is working to steer voters away from both amendments.
During the day, I'm the founder and executive director of Massachusetts Parents United, a parent advocacy group that brings together parents from across the Commonwealth to fight for safer neighborhoods, stable and secure homes and high - quality education for every child.
The Connecticut Coalition for Achievement Now, Inc. (ConnCAN), the charter school advocacy group that was created by the founders of Achievement First, the state's largest charter school management company, has signed a two - year, $ 200,000 lobbying contract with Connecticut government relations firm, Gaffney, Bennett and Associates.
«A lot of publishers and companies view it as an economic imperative for survival to say they're aligned to Common Core,» says Theodor Rebarber, founder and CEO of AccountabilityWorks, a Maryland - based advocacy group, and author of a 2012 study that estimated implementation nationally could cost as much as $ 15.8 billion.
«It's an extraordinary opportunity for far - reaching education reform,» said Jeanne Allen, founder and chief executive of the Center for Education Reform, a pro-charter, pro-voucher advocacy group.
«I know of shelters in Kentucky right now where dogs are outside in outdoor kennels because there's not enough room in a little shelter,» said Newtz, founder of the Bluegrass Animal Welfare Advocacy Group.
That suits Colleen Lynn, founder of DogsBite.org, an advocacy group which supports restrictions on pit bulls.
Common Practice New York draws inspiration from Common Practice, London, an affiliated advocacy group working for the recognition and fostering of the small - scale contemporary visual arts sector in England, and founder of the Common Practice Network.
«A car affects the world more than anything else a buyer will purchase in his or her lifetime,» says Felix Kramer, founder of the California Cars Initiative, a plug - in advocacy group in Palo Alto, Calif..
Mr. Matthiessen, 53, a former president of Riverkeeper, an environmental advocacy group, is the political strategist, founder and director of Move NY.
«You would not have to go to the gas station for months on end,» the founder of a plug - in advocacy group, Felix Kramer, said.
She was also the founder and director of the advocacy group Water Matters, where she led watershed - protection efforts in Alberta, Canada.
«The low - hanging fruit is out there,» says Felix Kramer, founder of the plug - in advocacy group Cal Cars.
Felix Kramer, founder of CalCars.org, a nonprofit advocacy and technology demonstration group based in Palo Alto, is all ears.
President candidate Donald Trump responded to ten questions submitted by the free - market energy advocacy group, American Energy Alliance (the advocacy arm of the Institute for Energy Research, of which I am founder and CEO).