Conservation Law Foundation (CLF) announced today that it has named Veronica Eady as Vice President and Director of its Massachusetts Advocacy Center. Eady first joined CLF in 2013 as Vice President and Director of the Healthy Communities and Environmental Justice Program.
“Veronica has a strong sense of community and has been the architect of groundbreaking environmental legal policies,” said Sean Mahoney, Executive Vice President, Conservation Law Foundation. “Her leadership will be critical to how we advance our mission in Massachusetts and how we connect our work to all people throughout the region.”
Eady joined CLF after spending nearly five years in Berlin, where she specialized in global and national environmental justice and human rights issues. Eady was also the Associate General Counsel and Director of Environmental Justice at New York Lawyers for the Public Interest, a nonprofit civil rights law firm.
Eady has deep ties to New England, having served as Director of the Environmental Justice and Brownfields Programs for the Massachusetts Executive Office of Environmental Affairs, where she was the principal author of Massachusetts’ Environmental Justice Policy. She also served as the Executive Director of the Roxbury-based environmental justice advocacy organization, Alternatives for Community and Environment.
Eady has held appointments on several faculties, including Europe-Viadriana University in Germany, Tufts University Fordham Law School, and Stanford Law School. She is the former chair of the EPA’s federal advisory committee for environmental justice, the National Environmental Justice Advisory Council.
