Kathy Curtis

Policy Director, Clean New York
clean.kathy@gmail.com

Kathy Curtis has more than two decades of experience in NY's environmental health movement, and is a widely recognized national leader. She is on the Safer Chemicals, Healthy Families steering committee, participates in the Business-NGO Working Group for Safer Chemicals & Sustainable Materials and the steering committee of the Alliance of Nurses for Healthy Environments, for which she coordinates the policy and advocacy workgroup. She co-coordinates the JustGreen Partnership, is the coordinator of the PBDE Strategic Campaign and is a long-time leader of the Coming Clean Collaborative's Policy Workgroup, through which she co-founded the SAFER campaign. She serves on the Board of Unity Homes, Inc., the board of the Eastern NY Occupational Health Clinic, and the NYS Taskforce on Flame Retardant Safety. She was Executive Director at Citizens' Environmental Coalition (CEC) for the last four of her thirteen years there, which she began by establishing their community outreach program. Previously, she was Outreach Director at Environmental Planning Lobby (now Environmental Advocates of NY) and worked as a nurse. She lives in Rotterdam, NY where she serves on the Rotterdam Conservation Advisory Council, and recently achieved passage of a PBT-Free Purchasing Resolution. She has four children: Adam, Amber, Shannon and Vanessa and a step-daughter Rachel.