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John A. Heer Supervising Attorney at Fair Shake Environmental Legal Services in Cleveland, OH 
Mr. Heer has almost 30 years of experience practicing litigation, transactional, regulatory and environmental law, including experience with traditional environmental issues relating to the Clean Water Act, Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA), the Clean Air Act, the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA), the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, the Rodenticide Act (FIFRA), the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA), brownfields, wetlands and stormwater. He also has experience across North America with sustainability and chemical management. He is also a certified ISO 14001:2004 EHS auditor. Mr. Heer earned his J.D. degree, cum laude, from Case Western Reserve University School of Law, where he earned the Lewis F. Powell, Jr. Excellence in Advocacy Award on the National Mock Trial team. He received a B.A. degree in Criminal Justice and Psychology from Indiana University. 

TRC Companies, Inc., Project Manager, Environmental Due Diligence
Mr. Kurinsky has over 13 years of experience in managing and providing technical support for diverse projects for identifying, investigating and remediating environmental impacts, including projects performed through the Ohio Voluntary Action Program (VAP) that require the completion of a No Further Action (NFA) letter package and obtaining a Covenant Not to Sue (CNS). His experience includes ASTM Phase I Environmental Site Assessments (ESAs), ASTM Phase II Investigations, remedial investigations, environmental compliance evaluations, Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act (EPCRA) reporting, spill prevention, control and countermeasure (SPCC) plans, National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) permitting and associated stormwater pollution prevention plans (SWPPPs). He also has experience in wastewater permitting, Ohio Bureau of Underground Storage Tank Regulations (BUSTR) closures, Ohio Cessation of Regulated Operations (CRO) Program, transactional due diligence support, environmental liability risk summaries and desktop reviews. Mr. Kurinsky regularly provides advisory and assurance-related services to clients on environmental liabilities, corporate governance, environmental health and safety management and social responsibility strategies.

TRC Companies, Inc., Senior Project Manager/Human Health Risk Assessor
Ms. Teuscher has over 30 years of diversified experience in the chemical and environmental industry and has provided project management and key technical support for a variety of projects. In addition to managing TRC’s Cleveland office, she has performed numerous human health risk assessments in accordance with various state and federal guidelines. Her areas of expertise include remedial investigation, risk assessment, vapor intrusion, brownfield redevelopment, RCRA closures, numerous phase I/phase II environmental assessments, feasibility studies, statistical analyses, and analytical chemistry. Ms. Teuscher has performed human health risk assessments and provided technical support for a variety of projects under such programs as CERCLA, RCRA, TSCA, individual state and USEPA brownfield programs. She has had successful experience in identifying reasonable and protective alternatives for risk- based solutions to environmental concerns. Ms. Teuscher’s experience also includes performing lab audits, data validation, implementation of QA/QC procedures, and preparing quality assurance project plans. Prior to consulting, she was QA/QC director for a large environmental laboratory.

John A. Heer Supervising Attorney at Fair Shake Environmental Legal Services in Cleveland, OH 
Mr. Heer has almost 30 years of experience practicing litigation, transactional, regulatory and environmental law, including experience with traditional environmental issues relating to the Clean Water Act, Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA), the Clean Air Act, the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA), the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, the Rodenticide Act (FIFRA), the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA), brownfields, wetlands and stormwater. He also has experience across North America with sustainability and chemical management. He is also a certified ISO 14001:2004 EHS auditor. Mr. Heer earned his J.D. degree, cum laude, from Case Western Reserve University School of Law, where he earned the Lewis F. Powell, Jr. Excellence in Advocacy Award on the National Mock Trial team. He received a B.A. degree in Criminal Justice and Psychology from Indiana University. 

TRC Companies, Inc., Project Manager, Environmental Due Diligence
Mr. Kurinsky has over 13 years of experience in managing and providing technical support for diverse projects for identifying, investigating and remediating environmental impacts, including projects performed through the Ohio Voluntary Action Program (VAP) that require the completion of a No Further Action (NFA) letter package and obtaining a Covenant Not to Sue (CNS). His experience includes ASTM Phase I Environmental Site Assessments (ESAs), ASTM Phase II Investigations, remedial investigations, environmental compliance evaluations, Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act (EPCRA) reporting, spill prevention, control and countermeasure (SPCC) plans, National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) permitting and associated stormwater pollution prevention plans (SWPPPs). He also has experience in wastewater permitting, Ohio Bureau of Underground Storage Tank Regulations (BUSTR) closures, Ohio Cessation of Regulated Operations (CRO) Program, transactional due diligence support, environmental liability risk summaries and desktop reviews. Mr. Kurinsky regularly provides advisory and assurance-related services to clients on environmental liabilities, corporate governance, environmental health and safety management and social responsibility strategies.

TRC Companies, Inc., Senior Project Manager/Human Health Risk Assessor
Ms. Teuscher has over 30 years of diversified experience in the chemical and environmental industry and has provided project management and key technical support for a variety of projects. In addition to managing TRC’s Cleveland office, she has performed numerous human health risk assessments in accordance with various state and federal guidelines. Her areas of expertise include remedial investigation, risk assessment, vapor intrusion, brownfield redevelopment, RCRA closures, numerous phase I/phase II environmental assessments, feasibility studies, statistical analyses, and analytical chemistry. Ms. Teuscher has performed human health risk assessments and provided technical support for a variety of projects under such programs as CERCLA, RCRA, TSCA, individual state and USEPA brownfield programs. She has had successful experience in identifying reasonable and protective alternatives for risk- based solutions to environmental concerns. Ms. Teuscher’s experience also includes performing lab audits, data validation, implementation of QA/QC procedures, and preparing quality assurance project plans. Prior to consulting, she was QA/QC director for a large environmental laboratory.

Senior Vice President, Predevelopment Finance, MassDevelopment
A member of MassDevelopment’s Community Development Division since 1998, Mr. Calnan is responsible for the statewide administration of the Brownfields Redevelopment Fund, the Collaborative Workspace Program, the Predevelopment Loan Program, and the Cultural Facilities Fund. Combined, these programs have provided over $200 million in over 1,700 financings to borrowers and grantees throughout the Commonwealth.
Prior to joining MassDevelopment, Mr. Calnan served from 1995-1998 as Assistant Legal Counsel for the Massachusetts Office of Business Development, and as the Director of the Economic Assistance Coordinating Council, a board charged with certifying expanding businesses for state and local tax incentives through the Economic Development Incentive Program.
Mr. Calnan is a graduate of Boston College and Suffolk University Law School.
MassDevelopment, the state’s finance and development agency, works with businesses, nonprofits, banks, and communities to stimulate economic growth. During FY2019, MassDevelopment financed or managed 316 projects generating investment of more than $2 billion in the Massachusetts economy. These projects are estimated to create or support 9,743 jobs and build or preserve 1,992 housing units.

Senior Associate, Haley & Aldrich, Inc.
Ms. Dilawari has diverse experience in environmental site characterization, remediation, and redevelopment of contaminated sites under the Massachusetts Contingency Plan (MCP), as well as the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA), the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) and the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA). She has successfully managed large and complex projects which require environmental due diligence consultation for property acquisition, environmental compliance strategy development, selection, design and implementation of remediation program, design, implementation and testing of vapor intrusion mitigation systems, and regulatory compliance documentation.   
Ms. Dilawari has a technical background in both environmental and geotechnical engineering and has also provided project management and project engineering services for large construction projects which have included excavation earth support, foundation construction, excavated soil management, and construction dewatering. With this dual technical experience, Ms. Dilawari is uniquely capable of facilitating environmental regulatory compliance and remediation solutions which are seamlessly integrated with urban real estate redevelopment. Ms. Dilawari has Bachelor of Science degrees in Civil Engineering and a Master of Science in GeoEnvironmental Engineering, both from Tufts University.

Managing Shareholder, Mackie Shea Durning P.C.
 Mr. Durning is the Managing Shareholder at Mackie Shea, P.C., an environmental and land use law boutique. He focuses his practice in the areas of environmental litigation, enforcement defense, land use and permitting, with a specific focus in the areas of hazardous materials, solid waste, water and wetlands. His experience includes adjudicatory hearings before the MassDEP, zoning disputes, judicial review of administrative proceedings, and appellate work. Mr. During represents clients in environmental remediation cost recovery actions under M.G.L. c. 21E, as well as business and transactional consulting related to contaminated property. He earned his J.D. from Boston College Law School and holds a B.A. in History from the University of Notre Dame.
 

Managing Director, Green Insurance Exchange
Mr. Everts is the Managing Director at Green Insurance Exchange (GIX) in Boston, MA.  He specializes in the design and placement of Pollution Legal Liability policies for commercial property transactions, mergers and acquisitions, and property redevelopment activities. Mr. Everts has been involved with the environmental insurance market since the class of business was developed in the mid-1980s. His clientele includes national property developers, local and national banks, state and local governments, the armed forces, and Fortune 500 companies. 
Prior to joining GIX ten years ago, Mr. Everts worked for Frank B. Hall & Co. (AON), Marsh USA and William Gallagher Associates. He thoroughly enjoys the challenge of developing an insurance product that provides viable coverage in cases where others said it could not be done. Mr. Everts works and lives in Boston and can often be seen walking his Norfolk Terrier Dexter around the waterfront on the weekends. He can be reached via email at aeverts@greenix.us.com
 

Senior Principal, GZA GeoEnvironmental, Inc. 
Dr. Feldman has been with GZA for over 35 years, and works primarily out of the firm’s Norwood and Boston offices. For the past 30 years, Dr. Feldman’s work has focused primarily on the assessment, remediation, and redevelopment of brownfield sites contaminated by oil and/or hazardous material, and on providing litigation support in cases involving such sites. He has provided Licensed Site Professional (LSP) services at over 250 Massachusetts oil and hazardous material disposal sites since 1993, and has been qualified as an expert witness in a number of court cases.
Having served as an appointed member of the legislative study committee that developed the recommendations that served as the foundation for the creation of Massachusetts’ award-winning privatized cleanup program in 1992, Dr. Feldman has consulted with other states interested in privatizing their cleanup programs. He served as a gubernatorial appointee to the Massachusetts Board of Registration of Hazardous Waste Site Cleanup Professionals (“Licensed Site Professionals”) from its creation in 1992 until 2004, and still serves as an appointee to MassDEP’s Hazardous Waste Site Cleanup Advisory Committee. A founding director of the LSP Association in 1992, he served as its President in 2007-2008. He is an associate member of the Boston Bar Association, and serves on the Public Affairs Committee of the Massachusetts chapter of NAIOP, the Commercial Real Estate Development Association. Dr. Feldman has lectured at programs presented by a number of legal and other professional organizations.
 

Deputy Division Chief, Environmental Protection Division, Office of the Attorney General
Ms. Harper has been an Assistant Attorney General in the Environmental Protection Division of the Massachusetts Attorney General’s Office for over 31 years, where she handles Brownfields redevelopment matters and complex environmental enforcement matters on behalf of the Commonwealth. For the past six years, she has been the Deputy Division Chief of the division, and her primary responsibility has been to oversee the enforcement matters handled by the division. For four years, she was a member of the Attorney General’s Fellowship Hiring Committee and remains actively involved with mentoring current and past AGO Fellows.  Prior to coming to the Attorney General’s Office, Ms. Harper worked for almost four years at the City of New York Law Department where she prosecuted juveniles, included gang members, for both violent and non-violent crimes. She is a 1981 graduate of the University of Pennsylvania and a 1984 graduate of Syracuse University College of Law. 

Vice President, Haley & Aldrich, Inc.
 Mr. Phillips has more than 30 years of experience providing strategic environmental consulting services including technical and regulatory direction related to the investigation, cleanup and redevelopment of contaminated properties, litigation support for cost recovery actions, and regulatory compliance services under RCRA, Superfund, and state regulations. His areas of expertise include forensic chemistry in support of contaminant source identification, data quality, and cost allocation and recovery for environmental cleanup. Expert services in litigation and settlement negotiations have included regulatory compliance, contaminant sources, future remediation costs, bankruptcy, and environmental insurance matters.

President of Collaborative Access Studio
Employed in the architecture and construction industry since 1988, Mr. Dea is a licensed architect in the states of California and Utah and is an ICC-certified accessibility inspector/plans examiner. Since 2001, his practice has focused on compliance with federal and state accessibility standards, Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) transition plan services, and accessible design covering buildings, sites, and pedestrian facilities in public rights-of-way. This has encompassed accessibility evaluations, plan reviews, and code analyses for numerous corporate, education, and governmental clients.

Summary of Experience

• Consultant access compliance plan reviewer to California’s Division of the State Architect (DSA) – Los Angeles Basin Region Office (2004-2011)
•  One of California’s first certified access specialists (CASp #023), based on experience and testing criteria administered by the DSA (2008)
• Alternate delegate (2014-2021) and primary delegate (2021-current) to the ICC/ANSI Committee on Accessible and Usable Buildings and Facilities, contributing to creation of the 2017 edition of the ICC A117.1 Accessibility
  Standard. The A117.1 Standard is adopted by building code jurisdictions throughout the United States.
• Provider of over 50 accessibility training presentations to licensed architects and engineers, attorneys, public agencies, and professional organizations, including a 5-hour course addressing the continuing education
  requirement for California architects.
•  Provider of technical assistance to attorneys and other clients to assist in the resolution of lawsuits, complaints, and claims related to state and federal access laws.

GreenStructure, Ltd.
Ms. Rodriguez is a LEED AP, CRPL climate leader, certified permaculture practitioner and green infrastructure specialist. With over 30 years experience in the building products industry, she is the founder of GreenStructures, a multidisciplinary environmental consulting firm. Her efforts are concentrated in the development of training and public outreach in the areas of climate mitigation, resiliency and green infrastructure practices. Former director of sustainability for Tremco Roofing, Ms. Rodriguez has provided leadership on many high-profile green roof projects across North America. Her recent speaking engagements include keynote speaker The Virtual Green Roof & Wall Summit, the National Roofing Contractor Association sustainability webinar series and the Green Infrastructure Foundation Seattle Design Charette.

Ms. Uhlmann is an environmental horticulturist, accredited green roof professional, certified permaculture practitioner and certified sustainable landscape professional. Her firm, Urban Horticulture Consulting, provides green infrastructure planning, training, and asset management. Over the past 19 years, she has been a passionate advocate for green infrastructure education and policy making. Based in Marietta, Georgia, her projects include green roof design, assessments and remediation, maintenance protocol development, FLL compliance testing and the development of public outreach programs. Recent speaking engagements include The Little Rock Sustainability Conference, P80 Global Summit, and The Green Infrastructure Foundation Seattle Design Charette.