Staff Biographies, Center for Science & Public Policy

Michael Hughes is the Vice-President and Director of The Keystone Center for Science and Public Policy. He is a mediator and trainer with 16 years experience in public policy mediation, workplace mediation and mediator training. In recent years, he has mediated long-standing conflicts over transportation, land use, air quality and health policy. He has conducted regulatory negotiations, policy dialogues and site-specific mediations at the local, state and federal level. Mike holds a Master’s degree in City Planning from the University of Pennsylvania, worked as a planner in local government and is a member of the American Institute of Certified Planners. He received a Bachelor’s Degree in Political Science and Sociology from the University of Denver magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa.

Sue Wilcox  
Title: Assistant Director, Center for Science and Public Policy
Division: Center for Science and Public Policy, Finance and Operations
Location: Keystone, CO



Sue has been with The Center for over 15 years. She manages the finances, assists with business development, oversees project contracts, and supervises the program coordinators for the Science and Public Policy program. Prior to coming to The Center, she was employed by Keystone Resort. Sue has a Bachelors degree from The College of St. Catherine in St. Paul, Minnesota.

Janesse Brewer  
Title: Senior Associate
Division: Center for Science and Public Policy
Location: Keystone, CO
Phone: 970-513-5847



Janesse Brewer convenes, facilitates and mediates dialogue and negotiation aimed at resolving public policy issues. Janesse focuses on multi-party national and international disputes to find sustainable solutions to complex problems with difficult timelines. She specializes in health, environmental and emerging technology issues.

Presently, she is facilitating a Restoration Advisory Board, comprised primarily of Native American representatives from the local villages on a remote island in the Bering Sea, to address clean-up issues related to former federal defense facilities in their communities, with particular emphasis on the impact on their subsistence lifestyle.

Janesse facilitates DuPont’s Biotechnology Advisory Panel which seeks guidance from a diverse, international group of experts in ethics, sustainability, subsistence farming, consumer health advocacy, and nutrition. She and a Keystone team are working to find sustainable solutions to a mining dispute in Papua New Guinea involving 50,000 indigenous people whose traditional ways of life have been forever altered by the mine tailings emptied into the Ok Tedi river basin. Janesse has spent four months on the ground and traveled up and down the Ok Tedi and Fly Rivers to help bring leaders from 152 villages into the decision-making process. Her work with the women and children affected by the mine has resulted in establishing a Women and Children’s Trust Fund that will direct 10% of the final settlement to programming specifically for women and children. Funding priorities and spending will be decided by women and by those representing children’s interests.

Janesse has many years’ experience facilitating dialogue and finding solutions to complex environmental issues, many of which involve NEPA. She facilitated dialogue focused on finding safe and publicly acceptable methods of chemical weapons destruction in Colorado and Kentucky. She has worked with NASA and the launch site community in Florida regarding risk to the environmental and population in the event of a launch accident involving a spacecraft with nuclear components. She has facilitated workshops among the Navy, scientists, and Congressional staffers on low frequency sonar’s effect on marine mammals.

Heather Bergman  
Title: Associate
Division: Center for Science and Public Policy
Location: Keystone, CO
Phone: 303-531-5511
Fax: 303-468-8866



Heather Bergman is an Associate Facilitator with the Center for Science and Public Policy. She is involved in projects on a variety of topics, including public lands management, chemical weapons disposal, and sustainable development. Prior to coming to The Keystone Center, Heather worked for The Wilderness Society, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, and the State of Colorado. Heather has a Bachelor's Degree in International Relations and Modern Languages and a Master's Degree in Public Administration. She is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in comparative environmental politics and is preparing a doctoral dissertation on the implications for democracy of participatory resource management in the U.S. and developing countries.

Stephanie Cheval
Title: Senior Program Coordinator/Marketing & Web Development Coordinator
Divisions: Center for Science and Public Policy/Marketing & Development
Location: Keystone, CO
Phone: 970-513-5837


Ms. Cheval has been with The Keystone Center for eleven years and provides administrative support, meeting planning and program assistance for The Center for Science and Public Policy and Center for Education. She has also served as Senior Program Coordinator/ Web Developer for various projects, including: Climate Status Investigation (www.keystonecurriculum.org), and also in cooperation with Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the Public Engagement Meetings: Public Influenza Vaccine Prioritization, The Public Engagement Project on Community Control Measure for Pandemic Influenza, Vaccination Stakeholder Process, The Public Engagement Pilot Project on Pandemic Influenza. She has also been on various projects such as The Food and Drug Administration’s Stakeholder Obesity Forum, DuPont’s Health Advisory Board, and DuPont’s Biotechnology Advisory Board.

Ms. Cheval is currently Program Coordinator for the Non-Stockpile Chemical Materiel Project. She attended the State University of New York at New Paltz, majoring in biology. In her former career, Ms. Cheval was also a professional florist and designer.

Jody Erikson
Title: Associate
Division: Center for Science and Public Policy
Location: Denver, CO
Phone: 303-468-8862


Jody joined The Keystone Center as an Associate. Prior to joining The Keystone Center she worked for three years with RESOLVE, a premier mediation/facilitation organization focused on technically and scientifically complex alternative dispute resolution services. She provides neutral process design and mediation/facilitation services to resolve highly technical policy issues through settlement negotiations, advisory committees, scientific think tanks, and collaboratives. Jody has worked with a broad range of stakeholders on issues including superfund site remediation, hydro facility re-licensing, renewable energy, federal environmental and transportation planning, local planning, and health issues. She holds a Master’s Degree in Public Administration from the University of Colorado, Denver (2006), a Bachelor’s Degree in Human Communications from the University of Denver (1992), and completed graduate certificate hours in Alternative Dispute Resolution masters program at the University of Denver. She received mediation training from CDR Associates (2000), the Lincoln Land Institute (2002) and The Keystone Center (2003).


Beth Fascitelli
Title: Program Coordinator/Office Manager
Division: Center for Science & Public Policy
Location: Washington, DC
Phone: 202-452-1590


Beth joined The Keystone Center in October 2006. As Program Coordinator in the DC office, she provides administrative support, meeting planning and documentation, as well as program assistance for The Center for Science and Public Policy. Before joining Keystone, Beth completed an M.I.A. at Columbia University’s School for International and Public Affairs (SIPA), concentrating in “Human Rights, Conflict and Corporate Development.” While at SIPA, she became engaged in the issue of oil-related conflict in the Niger Delta, and spent a summer in Nigeria with a grassroots NGO called the Centre for Social and Corporate Responsibility. Beth also worked as a community organizer for a congregation-based organization in central Florida; she spearheaded a multi-stakeholder public health campaign and worked to engage Spanish-speaking immigrants in the organization’s initiatives.

With a passion for travel, Beth lived for 18 months in Thailand, where she taught university English, interned with a grassroots community development NGO and was a participant-observer in a village-based struggle against dam-construction on Thailand’s Mun River. Having done field research in a Mayan village in Mexico, Beth completed an undergraduate thesis and received a B.A. in anthropology and English from Amherst College in 1999. She is New York State certified in community mediation, speaks Spanish and enjoys running, hiking and spirituality.

Don Greenstein
Title: Senior Mediator/Senior Associate
Division: Center for Science and Public Policy
Location: Washington, DC & Boston, MA
Phone: 703-506-0767, cell: 703-980-6209


Don Greenstein has a background in the law, negotiations, dispute resolution and management. He has over 26 years experience working with a broad spectrum of technical issues and dispute resolution processes. As a reformed lawyer his work has involved environmental, tribal, community, inter personal as well as business matters. He has worked on federal, state and local community issues. He is trained as a critical incident stress manager and supports a team of first responders from the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

Mr. Greenstein has been involved in convening and facilitating mine scarred land projects. He is also involved in facilitating the organization of a new not-for-profit foundation and has experience working with culturally diverse organizations. Mr. Greenstein has over 15 years of federal service and has worked with a number of federal agencies including: Department of Justice, US Postal Service, US Navy, US Air Force, US EPA, US Department of Transportation, Federal Emergency Management Agency, and US Department of Homeland Security.

Mr. Greenstein is a passionate biker and for the past decade has biked over 1500 miles a year raising funds for cancer research. He has one daughter who is a sophomore at Ohio University and will be moving from DC to the Boston area to help Doug Thompson establish The Keystone Center’s presence in New England. He received a JD in general law and a BA in social welfare from Antioch College in Ohio and Antioch School of Law, Washington DC.


Meg Kelly
Title: Associate
Division: Center for Science and Public Policy
Location: Washington, DC
Phone: 202-452-1590


Meg joined The Keystone Center in September 2003. As an Associate, she facilitates small groups of participants, collaborates in project development, conducts background research and interviews, documents and disseminates proceedings and outcomes, and engages in other activities to support and further Center for Science and Public Policy Programs. Through her project work, she has helped stakeholders effectively tackle contentious issues such as flu pandemic vaccination, the Endangered Species Act, forest sustainability certification, American obesity, and electricity transmission. Before joining The Keystone Center, Meg completed an environmental fellowship with the State Public Interest Research Groups (State PIRGs), and then went on to direct the National Association of State PIRGs’ alumni project. Meg received her B.A. in Environmental Studies from Connecticut College in 2000. More recently, she earned a Certificate in Conflict Resolution Processes through George Mason University. She has also served as a volunteer mediator with Full Circle Grassroots Consultants, LLC. Meg is fluent in Spanish and German.





Jeremy Kranowitz
Title: Senior Associate
Division: Center for Science & Public Policy, Energy Program
Location: Washington, DC
Phone: 202-452-1594


Jeremy Kranowitz is a Senior Associate in The Keystone Center’s Science and Public Policy Program. Jeremy focuses on energy-related issues and also serves as the Congressional Liaison for The Keystone Center. He is currently working on a joint fact-finding project on the future of nuclear power. He also manages an outreach and education program for the Department of Energy related to carbon sequestration.

Past work has focused on improving regional electric transmission, accelerating development of hydrogen vehicles, siting of biosafety laboratories, and deep space communication satellites. Prior to joining The Center, Jeremy directed a Clean Air Campaign at the Izaak Walton League of America, working with grassroots efforts, the government, and electric utility companies on efforts to reduce air pollution from electric power plants. Jeremy has consulted on a variety of environmental issues. He helped establish a new not-for-profit organization, Forest Trends, which focuses on building coalitions to advance the goals of sustainable forestry worldwide. Jeremy also worked at the consulting firm of McKinsey & Company to encourage Fortune 500 companies to evaluate the environmental implications of the goods they produced. Jeremy earned his B.A. and a Masters in Environmental Science at The Johns Hopkins University, a Masters of Public Administration degree from New York University, and conflict resolution training from George Mason University. He is a volunteer mediator with the Conflict Resolution Center of Montgomery County.

Jeremy Kranowitz, “Something in the Air,” Outdoor America, December 2002. (Published by the Izaak Walton League of America.)

Helen Littrell Smith
Title: Program Coordinator
Division: Center for Science and Public Policy
Location: Keystone, CO
Phone: 970-513-5825


Helen joined The Keystone Center in December of 2003. She is assisting in the development of Keystone’s sustainability programs and also serves as the Program Coordinator for the following projects: Ok Tedi Mining CMCA Review, Snake River Watershed Task Force, Bottlenose Dolphin Take Reduction Team, Best Sustainability Practices for Production Agriculture Systems, and the Fountain Creek Vision Task Force. A native to Oregon, she relocated to Summit County in 2003. She has a B.S. in Rhetoric and Media Studies from Willamette University in Salem, Oregon.


Caelan McGee
Title: Associate
Division: Center for Science and Public Policy
Location: Denver, CO
Phone: 303-468-8863


Caelan is a facilitator who specializes in consensus building for land use and transportation decision making, especially within the context of the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA). He studied biology as an undergraduate student and geography and land use planning as a graduate student. Caelan also has a background in two-party community mediation and continues to volunteer and practice in this area. In his spare time Caelan travels and plays in the mountains as much as possible.

In his role at The Keystone Center, Caelan facilitates multi-party public policy conflicts. His responsibilities include consensus building process design, meeting facilitation, conflict and situation assessment and training in interest-based problem solving. Previously, while at RESOLVE, his responsibilities included facilitating public meetings and multi-party stakeholder groups, conflict and situation assessment, training in interest-based problem solving.

Ed Moreno
Title: Associate
Division: Center for Science and Public Policy
Location: The Keystone Center, Southwest Region
Phone: 505-466-2006


Mr. Moreno joined The Keystone Center in February of 2005. His diverse background includes a consulting company in facilitation, mediation, public involvement, consensus and communication. His dispute resolution practice includes the entire range of public involvement, stakeholder dialogues, negotiated rule-making, training, planning and design of collaborative processes, as well as communication counseling, media relations and publications. His subject areas include land, water and air, wildlife and other natural resources, tribal affairs and education. Clientele have included federal, state, local and tribal entities, private companies and nonprofit organizations.

Catherine Morris
Title: Senior Associate and Director, Energy Practice
Location: Washington, DC
Phone: 202-452-1590


Ms. Morris is a Senior Associate with over 25 years of experience in energy and environmental policy and stakeholder engagement. While working with Keystone, Catherine has facilitated stakeholder forums on advanced transportation technologies, electricity transmission planning and siting, assessment & remediation of US DOE contaminated sites, and state-level energy efficiency and renewable energy policies, vaccine protocols for pandemic flu.

Prior to joining The Keystone Center, Catherine worked with stakeholder and policy forums on advancing renewable energy policy in Mexico, developing state climate change action plans, integrating efficiency and renewables in air quality planning, developing utility green power marketing and state disclosure policies, addressing brownfield redevelopment and air quality implications, analyzing the costs and environmental impacts of alternative multi-pollutant strategies for the electric power sector, addressing the environmental implications of the electricity industry restructuring, reforming the Clean Air Act and resolving federal energy information confidentiality policies.

Catherine has 10 years of experience as a utility regulator for the state of Massachusetts, three years as a free lance writer for The Electricity Journal and eight years with a non-profit air quality and climate policy think tank. Earlier in her career she worked for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the Environmental Law Institute, and Integrated Energy Systems, an energy engineering firm. She has a B.A. in Economics from the College of William and Mary; a Master’s degree in Regional and Environmental Planning from University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill; and facilitation and mediation training from George Mason University.

Judith O'Brien 
Title: Senior Associate and Director, Keystone Energy Board
Director, Keystone Food and Nutrition Roundtable
Division: Center for Science and Public Policy
Location: Washington, DC


Ms. O’Brien has been a facilitator and mediator with Keystone since 1994, focusing primarily on energy and health issues. In addition to managing the Keystone Energy Board, a group of 55 energy experts, which meets several times a year to discuss cutting edge technology and policy issues, Ms. O’Brien has facilitated stakeholder groups on electricity transmission siting; natural gas pipeline siting; development of regional transmission organizations; nuclear reactor decommissioning; and environmental technologies and international markets.

In the health area, Ms. O’Brien manages the Keystone Food and Nutrition Roundtable, and over the years has also been a part of the facilitation team on several health initiatives, including obesity prevention, AIDS, and prescription drug labeling.

Additionally, Ms. O’Brien has experience facilitating several strategic planning initiatives including working with the Business Roundtable as they set priorities for reducing consumption of energy; a major utility to create an inclusive stakeholder engagement process; the Army to develop a new environmental strategy; the American Petroleum Institute executive strategic planning session; and with the International Petroleum Industry Environmental Conservation Association on their Strategic Issues Assessment Forum Stakeholder Dialogue.

Prior to joining The Keystone Center, she spent five years working on energy policy issues for Congressman Phil Sharp on the staff of the Energy and Power Subcommittee. Judy graduated from Siena College with a B.S. in Marketing and Management.


Johanna Raquet
Title: Program Coordinator
Division: Center for Science and Public Policy
Location: Keystone, CO
Phone: 970-513-5839


Johanna joined The Keystone Center in April of 2005. She provides administrative support to The Center for Science and Public Policy and is the Program Coordinator for the following projects: Lounsbery Foundation Public Engagement Pilot Project on Pandemic Influenza, several nodes of the USGS Strategic Planning Services, the Food and Nutrition Roundtable, the Endangered Species Act Working Group, United States Green Building Council, as well as Keystone special projects. A graduate of the University of North Carolina (2002) with a Bachelors degree in Political Science and currently working on her Masters degree in Public Policy at the University of Colorado at Denver (expected graduation, 2007); she enjoys all the outdoor delights that Summit County has to offer.

Will Singleton
Title: Senior Associate
Division: Center for Science and Public Policy
Location: Denver, CO
Phone: 303-468-8865


William R. Singleton is a Senior Associate with over 14 years of experience in natural resource issues. Will brings expertise in facilitating interagency working groups who are tasked with specific work products and has substantial expertise in the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) and its processes. He has worked on complex environmental impact studies such as the Northwest Corridor Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) in the Denver metro area and the Lincoln, Clark and White Pine Counties Groundwater Development EIS in Nevada. Will has lectured internationally (Japan and Hong Kong) on engaging civil society through NEPA.

Will Singleton has lead efforts for the Western Governors Association (WGA) on Forest Health, U.S./Mexico Air Quality, Endangered Species, and has facilitated three task forces (Wind, Geothermal and Biomass) for the WGA’s Clean and Diversified Energy Initiative. Will is also an expert in public involvement in the NEPA process as a senior trainer for the National Highway Institute Public Involvement in Transportation Decision-making. Will has trained Department of Transportation officials in Ohio, Illinois and Georgia. Will has worked at the national level as a congressional staff person and at the international level as a government relations officer to two major Washington, DC based organizations. Will was the executive director of GLOBE USA, a bi-partisan congressional association dedicated to bringing a diverse set of views together to address environmental and natural resource issues in a balanced way. Will Singleton holds a B.A. in Political Science from Davidson College in North Carolina. He is also a roster member of the U.S. Institute for Environmental Conflict Resolution.

Brad Sperber
Title: Senior Associate, and Director of the Health and Social Policy Practice
Division: Center for Science and Public Policy
Location: Washington, DC
Phone: 202-452-1593


Brad Sperber is a Senior Associate and Director of the Health and Social Policy Practice Group. He mediates, facilitates, trains and consults among diverse sectors pursuant to resolving conflicts and developing sustainable policy solutions. Subjects addressed in the course of his work include obesity, micronutrient malnutrition in the developing world, pharmacogenomics, osteoporosis, bioethics, civil liberties, genetically engineered foods, endocrine-disrupting chemicals, and workplace health and safety. Current and past clients include the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, the Asian Development Bank, the Environmental Paper Collaborative, BP Amoco, and the Bill and Melissa Gates Foundation. Prior to joining The Keystone Center staff in February 2001, he worked as the Director of Forums for Business-Stakeholder Engagement at the Coalition for Environmentally Responsible Economies (CERES). He has worked as a research associate for Franklin Research & Development, and as a hospital chaplain. Brad received a M.Div. from Harvard Divinity School, and a B.A. in history and religion from Saint Olaf College in Minnesota.





Sarah Stokes Alexander
Title: Director of Sustainability and Leadership Programs
Division: Center for Science & Public Policy
Location: Keystone, CO
Phone: 970-513-5846


Sarah serves as Director of Sustainability and Leadership Programs and is also a senior facilitator for the Science and Public Policy Program at The Keystone Center with over ten years experience working on collaborative problem-solving models.

Ms. Alexander's' facilitation experience has ranged from helping mediate the Rocky Flats Cleanup Agreement to directing the stakeholder involvement for the Sustainable Slopes Environmental Charter for ski areas in the U.S. Through her work with the Keystone Leadership Forum, Ms. Alexander has worked with numerous corporations, including Abbott Labs, DuPont, Dow Chemical, ConocoPhillips, MeadWestvaco, Johnson & Johnson, and Cinergy to more fully engage their internal and external stakeholders in creating the business case for sustainable development. Prior to working at The Keystone Center, Ms. Alexander worked as an independent environmental consultant for tribes, ski areas, and several non-profits, was a writer for the Center for Resource Management on sustainable development issues and held numerous internships at various levels of government. She graduated from Middlebury College with a Bachelors degree in environmental studies, magna cum laude and with high departmental honors, and holds a Masters of Public Administration from Harvard University.


Doug Thompson
Title: Senior Mediator and Director, Environment Practice
Division: Center for Science and Public Policy
Location: Washington, DC
Phone: 508-468-5621


Doug Thompson, senior mediator and Director of the Environmental Practice Group for The Keystone Center, has a background in environmental protection, dispute resolution and management. He spent over twenty-five years with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in various technical and management capacities including chief of wetland protection and chief of water enforcement. As part of EPA’s dispute resolution program he served as a mediator and facilitator for a number of environmental issues as well as working on assignment as a program associate to the U.S. Institute for Environmental Conflict Resolution in Tucson, Arizona during 1999. Areas of special interest and expertise include enforcement case negotiation; interagency conflicts concerning regulatory or policy issues; and habitat protection disputes. Prior to EPA, he served as a VISTA volunteer in Chicago, Illinois. He has mediated extensively in the Massachusetts court system, is an adjunct faculty member of the University of Massachusetts Graduate Program in Dispute Resolution, and has experience mediating EEO, workplace and family disputes. He has been a practitioner and teacher of tai chi chuan for nearly 30 years, is a certified hospice volunteer and is an enthusiastic (though not very good) chess player. He received a B.A. in environmental science and a M.S. in biology from Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois.