Staff

Together, Toxics Action Center staff has more than 40 years of experience working on environmental issues. We will come to your community, meet with you and your neighbors and help you develop and implement plans for action.

Alyssa Schuren is the Executive Director for Toxics Action Center. Alyssa oversees the Toxic Action Center’s six New England offices. Before taking over as Executive Director, she previously worked as Toxics Action Center’s Vermont State Director and as the Organizing Director, supervising all staff. She also worked in Toxics Action Center’s Connecticut office, leading the Sooty Six campaign, which successfully cleaned up the six oldest and dirtiest power plants in the state. Alyssa has worked on more than 40 local, state and national environmental health campaigns. She is a graduate of Green Corps, the field school for environmental organizing, and has a B.A. in environmental studies from the University of Colorado at Boulder.

Mia Moore is the Development Director for Toxics Action Center. She works to diversify Toxics Action Center’s resource base, coordinating the organization’s fundraising efforts from foundations, major donors, and individual members. Mia specializes in fundraising and campaign development for the environment, public health, and consumer protection. Before her current work with Toxics Action Center, Mia oversaw membership outreach and fundraising offices for environmental organizations all over the country, with an annual goal of raising over $1 million in individual contributions.

Meredith Small is the Organizing Director for Toxics Action Center. She oversees our community organizing work in Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, New Hampshire, and Vermont. Before taking over as Organizing Director, Meredith began her work with Toxics Action Center in 2006 as the Community Organizer in New Hampshire where, among other things, she coordinated the grassroots campaign to ban the burning of construction and demolition debris. Prior to moving to New England, she worked for three years on environmental, poverty, affordable education, and democracy reform campaigns in California, Oregon and New York.

Sylvia Broude is Toxics Action Center’s Western Massachusetts and Connecticut Community Organizer.  She assists communities to tackle everything from preventing drinking water contamination, to cleaning up hazardous waste sites, to halting the construction of poorly-sited power plants, to reducing pesticide use in lakes and ponds and along roadways.  Before joining Toxics Action Center, Sylvia worked on electoral campaigns in Florida and New Jersey with MoveOn.org Political Action and the Sierra Club and ran a grassroots campaign office in Massachusetts focused on clean energy.  She has a B.A. in anthropology from Yale University. 

Jessica Edgerly is the Vermont Community Organizer for Toxics Action Center. She currently works largely on issues of surface mining and waste reduction. Previously, she worked in Maine with legislators, policy experts, and a local community group towards advancing community voice in local development decisions statewide. She graduated in 2006 from Bates College with a degree in Biology.

Sam Levor is Toxics Action Center's Administrator and Events Coordinator. With Toxics Action Center, he provides financial and research assistance, as well as coordinates the planning of all events. Prior to joining staff, Sam held a leadership role in running a grassroots campaign office for Environment Massachusetts and MassPIRG. He graduated from Brandeis University in 2007 with a B.A. in Politics and History.