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Pollution Campaign Director, Senior Scientist, Science

Based in: Washington, DC, USA

Jacqueline Savitz (Jackie) is Senior Campaign Director for Oceana’s Pollution Campaigns. She has shaped and led campaigns and projects dealing with global warming pollution from ships, mercury contamination of fish, and cruise ship pollution among other issues.  Savitz has a background in marine biology and environmental toxicology combined with more than fifteen years of policy analysis experience through which she has developed expertise on a variety of pollution issues involving toxic contamination, water pollution and air pollution.  

Prior to working with Oceana, Savitz served as Executive Director of the Coast Alliance, a network of more than 600 organizations throughout the United States working to protect the coasts from pollution and development. There she ran campaigns dealing with sediment contamination, port deepening, polluted runoff and coastal development, including barrier island protection.   

Earlier, Jackie worked as an environmental policy analyst with the Environmental Working Group in Washington, D.C. There her work focused on the public health effects of water and air pollution.  In that capacity she authored a series of reports on point source discharges, air quality standards, fish contamination and medical waste disposal. Jacqueline also worked as an environmental scientist with the Chesapeake Bay Foundation where she worked on toxics and point source pollution affecting Chesapeake Bay.

Jacqueline holds an M.S. Degree in environmental science with emphasis in toxicology from the University of Maryland, Chesapeake Biological Laboratory and a bachelor’s degree in marine science and biology from the University of Miami, in Florida.