Belmar Office

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Amy Goldsmith, NJEF State Director

Amy oversees all of New Jersey programs for NJEF and Clean Water Fund. She also serves on the Board of the NJ Work Environment Council, Earthshare New Jersey, Coalition for Affordable Housing and the Environment, New Jersey Policy Perspective, Fairness Alliance, NJ Working Families Alliance, Chairs the Coalition for Healthy Ports, founder of Newark-based Urban Environmental Institute, as well as serves as the governor's appointee to the NJDEP Clean Water Council. From 1994-1997, served as the National Coordinator for the Public Health Institute's (PHI) Jobs and Environment Training Consortium. Until 2002, was a member of the National Just Transition Alliance Curriculum Writing Team and Training Logistics Coordinator-working directly with environmental justice leaders and workers to use popular education methods to bridge the communication and organizing gap between them. Before joining NJEF in mid-1992, Ms. Goldsmith directed Clean Water Action/Fund's New England programs for seven years. In this capacity she organized and led a variety of public campaigns around groundwater, pesticides, Boston Harbor cleanup and solid waste. Prior to joining the New England staff, she served as the Executive Director of the Massachusetts Nuclear Referendum Committee, which focused on radioactive waste management issues. In 2004, she received an Environmental Achievement Award from NJ Governor McGreevey. She has a B.S. in Land Use Planning from the University of Minnesota, and served for three years as a research scientist with the University of Minnesota's Entomology Department. 

David Pringle, NJEF Campaign Director

For over 20 years, David has been one of the state's leading
environmental advocates at the local, state and federal level. He serves
as NJEF's chief strategist, media spokesperson, and lobbyist with a
particular focus on Trenton and electoral work on a very wide range of
legislative and regulatory issues. He's served on the Board of the NJ
Highlands Coalition as Co-Chair of its Policy Committee, as a Trustee of
Consumers for Civil Justice, and as the NJ Assembly Speaker's public
health appointee to the Drinking Water Quality Institute and chaired its
Health Committee. A graduate of Princeton University, David resides in
Cranford, NJ with his wife and 3 school age children, serves on the
Board of Trustees of the First Presbyterian Church, and also volunteers
as a local boy scout leader and basketball and soccer coach.

Lyle M. (Peggi) Sturmfels, NJEF Program Organizer

Peggi works with schools to adopt green cleaning, no bus idling, and
other protective measures. Coordinates NJEF's sustainable energy and
power plant safety initiatives. Prior to joining NJEF, Ms. Sturmfels was
Associate Editor of the Two River Times, Red Bank, NJ. Formerly a
member of the Governor's Lyme Disease Advisory Council, cofounder and
past president of Lyme Disease Coalition of NJ. Thirty years of
experience and leadership roles in campaigns with special needs
organizations, school boards, national, state (past vice president) and
local PTAs.

Jenny Vickers, NJEF Communications Coordinator and Organizer

Jenny spent two years field managing Belmar's door to door field canvass
before becoming NJEF's Communications Coordinator and Organizer. Jenny
conducts grassroots campaigns and mobilization efforts, responds to
inquiries for information, and makes referrals on a wide variety of
environmental issues. She is responsible for all electronic
communication systems (i.e email, list serve and web site), as well as
produces organizational and educational materials. Formerly, the Program
Assistant for the University Honors Program and Ethics Studies Program
at East Carolina University, as well as Staff Writer/Editor of The East
Carolinian Newspaper. She has a M.A. in International Studies from East
Carolina University. Jenny is also a published
freelance writer.

Ben Davies, Field Canvass Director

Montclair Office

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Deborah Kim Gaddy, NJEF Environmental Justice Organizer

Kim facilitates the development and implementation of NJEF/CWF's
grassroots-based environmental justice campaigns, networking and coalition
building efforts. She serves on the Essex County and Irvington (past chair) Environmental Commissions, NJ Department of Environmental Protection (NJDEP) and NJ Department of Health and Human Services Health Tracking Advisory Group, as well as vice chairs NJDEP's Environmental Justice Advisory Council. Kim is a member of the NJ Environmental Justice Alliance Steering Committtee. She is currently the NJ President of the International Black Women's Congress. She is also former Chief of Staff for Newark City Councilwoman Crump and founder/President of South Ward Cultural Center. She has a long history of being active on many Newark civic committees and was an elected school board member. She has a B.A. in Economics from Rutgers University and is the happy mother of three.

Eric Benson, NJEF Field Canvass Director

Eric started his NJEF career managing the door to door canvass staff in Montclair just as he graduated from Rutgers University with a bachelor's degree in Geography in 2001. The passionate and positively charged staff makes it exciting for him to go to work each day. With that, he brings new levels of environmental activism to our campaigns. Eric's life goal is to make the world more bicycle, pedestrian, and mass transit friendly for environmental, health and social reasons. Eric loves to travel and learn about issues by experiencing things first hand. Now a resident of Montclair, Eric also serves on the Essex County Environmental Commission.