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Nancy Pfeffer, the founder and President of Network Public Affairs, has over 25 years of environmental and transportation public policy experience. She is a frequent public speaker on various aspects of her work and career. With Network Public Affairs, she provides environmental and transportation planning services for the Gateway Cities Council of Governments. She has also produced an expert roundtable on alternative cargo movement technologies for the South Coast Air Quality Management District, fostered dialogue on port Clean Air Plans, and conducted analyses of warehousing growth patterns and roadway tolling for private developers. She writes a weekly column called Moving Green for the online Long Beach Post and serves as Chair of the Membership and Marketing Committee of the Cal State Long Beach Regional Technology Center. She also serves on the board of the International Business Association, and is a member of the Leadership Long Beach Class of 2008. From 1999 to 2006 she worked as a Program Manager and Senior Planner at the Southern California Association of Governments. During this time she managed the agency’s goods movement program. Her work on the consensus Southern California Regional Strategy for Goods Movement: A Plan for Action (Feb/Mar 2005) was recognized in 2006 by the California Transportation Foundation with a “Tranny” Award. She also coordinated public outreach efforts for Destination 2030, the 2004 Regional Transportation Plan, reaching over 5,000 people directly and resulting in over 300 press mentions of the plan. To accomplish this, she organized a team of internal and consultant staff and created an interactive calendar of outreach events to boost awareness and participation. In other work for SCAG, she developed the agency’s environmental justice program into a national model that was recognized in the Transportation Research Record, a publication of the Transportation Research Board. She created an environmental justice policy statement and procedure document for SCAG and initiated the use of new analytical tools and approaches for environmental justice. From 1997 to 1999, Ms. Pfeffer worked as a public policy analyst for ARCO, an international oil company (now part of British Petroleum). In this position she tracked federal legislative and policy developments in areas such as Superfund reform, environmental justice, and sustainable development. She also served as the Company’s liaison to the Pacific Northwest Regional Council of the President’s Council on Sustainable Development. Between 1994 and 1996 she was the manager of the environmental, health and safety compliance auditing program for ARCO Products Company, the refining and marketing division. In this position she integrated three previously separate programs and established procedures for tracking audit findings to resolution. Beginning in 1993 she served as the air quality compliance supervisor at ARCO’s Carson refinery, where she initiated a multi-departmental program to improve compliance with regulations on vapor leaks. Between 1988 and the early 1990’s, Ms. Pfeffer worked for Environmental Resources Management, an international environmental consulting firm, where she specialized in environmental audits, air quality and air toxics assessments, and due diligence assessments for property transfers. From 1981 to 1988 she was an environmental compliance specialist for Martin Marietta, an aerospace company that is now part of Lockheed Martin. Ms. Pfeffer holds a bachelor’s degree in Chemistry & Physics from Harvard University (1981) and a master’s degree in Public Policy, with environmental focus, from the University of Southern California (1999). From 2003 to 2008 she served on the Alumni Association Board of the USC School of Policy, Planning and Development. From 2004 to 2007 she was an elected Director of the West Coast Section of the Air & Waste Management Association. She has lived in Long Beach since 1992. |
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