Lisa Jackson: Environmental Protection Agency www.princeton.edu/engineering...As administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Lisa Jackson '86 leads the nations efforts to regulate pollution. The first African-American to head the EPA, she has made environmental justice a centerpiece of her agencys mission./nShortly after she was appointed by President Barack Obama to lead the EPA, The New York Times wrote that less than a month into the job, and with only a skeleton staff, Lisa Jackson has engineered an astonishing turnaround./nAs a graduate student in chemical engineering at Princeton, Jackson researched groundwater contamination, work that led to her to focus her engineering skills on addressing pollution. Jackson is former chief of staff to New Jersey Governor Jon Corzine. She joined New Jerseys Department of Environmental Protection in 2002, serving the agencys commissioner from 2006 to 2008. Before that she worked for 16 years for the EPA.

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