Board of Directors

Dana Gold – Chairman

Dana Gold served until 2008 as the co-founder and Director of the Center on Corporations, Law & Society at Seattle University School of Law. The Center was formed in 2003 to conduct and to promote interdisciplinary scholarship and dialogue on issues related to the roles and obligations of corporations in an increasingly privatized and interdependent global society.  In addition to her role as Director of the Center on Corporations, Law & Society, Gold also taught as an adjunct professor at Seattle University School of Law in the areas of whistleblower law and corporate governance.  Prior to her work with the Center, Dana served from 1995 to 2002 as attorney and Director of Operations of the Government Accountability Project (GAP). GAP is a national nonprofit organization that was founded in 1977 to promote government and corporate accountability through advancing occupational free speech and ethical conduct, as well as by providing legal and advocacy assistance to whistleblowers.  Dana’s former legal practice focused primarily on litigation within GAP’s Environmental and Nuclear Oversight Programs, where she represented whistleblowers who suffered retaliation for disclosing fraud and serious threats to public health, safety, and the environment on the Trans-Alaskan pipeline, at several Superfund sites, and at contractor-operated nuclear facilities such as Hanford in eastern Washington; Rocky Flats near Denver, Colorado; Lawrence Livermore in northern California; and Los Alamos in northern New Mexico.  Dana currently serves as an employee advocacy member of the Hanford Concerns Council, an independent alternative dispute resolution forum for resolving worker concerns at the Hanford facility.  She recently returned to her home state of Maine, where she writes and consults on whistleblower law and corporate governance.  She is a graduate of the College of William & Mary and Seattle University School of Law.

Patti Goldman- Vice Chairman

Patti Goldman is the Vice President for Litigation for Earthjustice, where she leads the organization’s ten regional offices in developing and implementing effective legal strategies to protect the environment for future generations.

Early in her legal career, Patti litigated many public interest issues, including civil rights, constitutional law, governmental accountability, pesticides, and trade and the environment. When she decided to move into environmental litigation full-time, she dreamed of working for Sierra Club Legal Defense Fund (as Earthjustice was known then). That dream came true in 1994, when she joined the Northwest office as a staff attorney; she became managing attorney in 1998.

Patti was given the woman of the year award by the Seattle University Women’s Law Caucus. She has been named a Superlawyer by Washington Law and Politics since 2006.

For a decade prior to joining Earthjustice, Patti worked for Public Citizen Litigation Group. In 1983, she graduated from University of Wisconsin Law School magna cum laude and Order of the Coif, where she served as editor in chief of the Wisconsin Law Review. After graduating, she clerked for a federal district judge and worked on women’s civil rights litigation through a Georgetown University Law School fellowship. She has a B.A. in economics from the University of Wisconsin.

Rod Cameron

A distinguished environmental attorney instrumental in efforts to halt the practice of whaling by the United States, Rod served as the first Executive Director of the Environmental Defense Fund in New York City. Rod assisted Hanford Challenge in the establishment of our non-profit status.

Marco Kaltofen

Marco Kaltofen is a Registered Professional Engineer (Civil, Massachusetts) and an environmental scientist with more than 25 years experience in environmental, workplace, and product safety investigations in North America and Eastern Europe. He performs environmental sampling for a living and has testified in numerous high-stakes litigation as an expert witness on behalf of injured peoples downstream and downwind from chemical facilities.

Mr. Kaltofen is President of Boston Chemical Data Corporation, Boston, Massachusetts, which provides technical support for environmentally-related organizations and for litigation. He was the founder and Laboratory Director for the Citizens’ Environmental Laboratory, Boston, Massachusetts. This laboratory was a nonprofit scientific organization which performed engineering and chemical quality evaluations of contaminated sites for grassroots community groups and for labor organization-based clients.

Marco has worked with other nonprofit organizations in his career. He was a Project Coordinator for Greenpeace International, London, UK, responsible for environmental program research and field sampling, media and community relations, and field programs. He supervised US and international projects related to hazardous chemicals.

Jerry Davis

Jerry Davis, a native of the Tri-Cities, is a retired geoscientist who holds a Ph.D. in Geology from the University of Arizona.  He is licensed by the State of Washington as a geologist, geological engineer, and hydrologist.  For more than 25 years, he worked on the environmental cleanup of the Hanford nuclear site.

Earlier in his career, Jerry was a consulting geologist, an exploration geologist for the mining and petroleum industries, and worked for the U. S. Bureau of Mines and Conservation Division of the U.S. Geological Survey.

During his career at Hanford, Jerry worked on numerous projects to assess and mitigate soil and groundwater contamination.  While working on a project to assess the effects from tanks leaking high-level radioactive wastes, Jerry endured retaliation as a whistleblower for protesting spurious assessment methods and results.  He was reinstated in his job by the Hanford Joint Council, predecessor of the Hanford Concerns Council.

Jerry currently operates a walnut farm and processing plant in Franklin County, while advocating for sustainable farming practices and community-supported agricultural marketing.

Gigi Coe

Gigi has spent most of her career working in the energy and telecommunications field. She served as the Director of Strategic Planning at the California Public Utilities Commission where she prepared policy papers and recommendations to the five-member commission that oversees utility rates and planning in that state. While at the CPUC she co-authored a study of the electric services industry, recommended changes in that utility structure, and oversaw completion of a telecommunications infrastructure study. Before that she served as the Assistant Executive Director for Policy and Programs at the California Energy Commission and as an advisor to a Commissioner. In these capacities she directed and co-authored studies of utility generation sources as well as advised Commissioners on power plant licensing. For the eight previous years, she worked for Governor Jerry Brown as Deputy Director of the Governor’s Office of Appropriate Technology. Just previous to her retirement, she served at the Manager of Strategy for MCI’s Western Public Policy Group. She is the author of several books on energy conservation and renewable energy sources.

Since her retirement, Gigi co-founded an independent high school in San Francisco that has an emphasis on science, technology, ethics, and spirituality. She and her husband have a ranch in Eastern Washington.

Tom Robinson

Tom Robinson helps clients map value streams, simplify processes, and strengthen organizational performance. For more than twenty years Tom has facilitated executive teams and led rapid improvement and 5S workshops. He has worked as an independent consultant, internal lean specialist, and chief administrative officer. Tom holds a Ph.D. from Stanford University, and recently served on the Organization Systems Renewal faculty of Seattle University. He now consults full-time through his firm, RapidImprove.com

Todd Martin

Todd has worked on Department of Energy cleanup issues for the past two decades. Todd’s writing, research and advocacy activities have included: Staff Researcher for the Hanford Education Action League, Chair of the Hanford Advisory Board, Chair of the Fernald Silos Project Critical Analysis Team, Technical Advisor to Serious Texans Against Nuclear Dumping, member of the Hanford Concerns Council, and Technical Advisor to Citizens for Clean Air of Spokane.

While Todd has worked on a broad number of environmental issues — from groundwater contamination in Texas to the Spokane garbage incinerator — his primary focus has been Hanford cleanup and the safe retrieval, treatment, and disposal of Hanford’s high level nuclear waste currently stored in 177 underground tanks.