Maya van Rossum has served as the Delaware Riverkeeper and leader of the Delaware Riverkeeper Network since 1994. van Rossum is skilled as an environmental attorney, strategist, community organizer, facilitator, coalition builder and manager. As Del...More
Maya van Rossum has served as the Delaware Riverkeeper and leader of the Delaware Riverkeeper Network since 1994. van Rossum is skilled as an environmental attorney, strategist, community organizer, facilitator, coalition builder and manager. As Delaware Riverkeeper, she organizes concerned communities, testifies before state and national governing bodies, oversees DRN litigation, and watches over the Delaware River and all of its tributary streams. Through appointments by governors and agency heads, she has played a role in shaping water quality, quantity and habitat policies and regulation in the Delaware River watershed for nearly two decades. van Rossum and her organization were the lead petitioners in the legal action that breathed life into Pennsylvania's constitutional right to a healthy environment. In the wake of that watershed victory, van Rossum wrote The Green Amendment, a book that was selected as a 2017 Forward Indies Book of the Year Finalist. van Rossum as been speaking in communities across the nation seeking to inspire a Green Amendment movement to secure constitutional level recognition and protection of the right to a healthy environment.
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