{"id":40802235818,"date":"2019-03-14T10:14:58","date_gmt":"2019-03-14T14:14:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/?p=40802235818"},"modified":"2021-02-16T11:47:53","modified_gmt":"2021-02-16T16:47:53","slug":"sen-kyrillos-leads-our-ocean-and-beaches-a-record-of-success-and-new-challenges-to-face-panel-at-monmouth-university","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/sen-kyrillos-leads-our-ocean-and-beaches-a-record-of-success-and-new-challenges-to-face-panel-at-monmouth-university\/","title":{"rendered":"Sen. Kyrillos Leads \u2018Our Ocean and Beaches: A Record of Success and New Challenges to Face\u2019 Panel at Monmouth University"},"content":{"rendered":"

April 5 event is free and open to\u00a0the\u00a0public;\u00a0registration is required<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Sen. Joseph Kyrillos<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Former state\u00a0Sen. Joseph M. Kyrillos<\/strong>\u00a0will moderate “Our Ocean and Beaches: A Record of Success and New Challenges to Face,” on Friday, April 5 at 10 a.m. in the University’s Wilson Auditorium.\u00a0\u00a0This is the\u00a0fourth and final panel discussion he will lead as\u00a0the\u00a02018-2019 Monmouth University Public Servant-in-Residence. Previous\u00a0panel discussions in the public servant-in-residence series focused on pension and benefit reform, bridging the partisan divide, and jobs and the economy.<\/p>\n

The panel will feature environmental experts including: Cindy Zipf<\/strong>, executive director of the nonprofit Clean Ocean Action;\u00a0Chris Daggett<\/strong>, former regional administrator of the United States Environmental Protection Agency and commissioner of the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection; and\u00a0Tony MacDonald<\/strong>, director of the Monmouth University Urban Coast Institute.<\/p>\n

Announced earlier this fall<\/a>,\u00a0Kyrillos<\/strong>\u00a0is currently serving as Monmouth University’s Public Servant-in-Residence.\u00a0 In January 2018,\u00a0Kyrillos\u00a0ended a nearly 30-year career in\u00a0the New Jersey Legislature.\u00a0 He served as majority conference leader and chaired standing committees on economic development and coastal resources.\u00a0 He was also chairman of\u00a0the\u00a0Republican State Committee from 2001-2004 and his party\u2019s nominee for\u00a0the\u00a0U.S. Senate in 2012.\u00a0\u00a0Kyrillos\u00a0holds a master\u2019s in communications from Boston University and a bachelor\u2019s in political science from Hobart College.\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>He is affiliated with Newmark Knight Frank, a global real estate services firm, Newport Capital Group, a financial services firm, and his consulting firm, SK Partners.<\/p>\n

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From left to right: Chris Daggett, Cindy Zipf, and Tony MacDonald<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Setting high standards for successful grassroots organizing with tangible results, Cindy Zipf<\/strong> uses her passion for science and advocacy to create campaigns and programs to drive public policy and reduce ocean pollution as the executive director of Clean Ocean Action (COA).\u00a0 <\/strong>Raised on the Jersey Shore, Zipf enjoyed sand, surf, and exploring local marine life, with a goal of becoming a marine biologist.\u00a0 Having learned the plight of the ocean following internships with the National Marine Fisheries Service and the American Littoral Society, she became motivated to engage in advocacy work based on science.\u00a0 In 1984, the waters off the New York\/New Jersey coast were known as the \u201cOcean Dumping Capitol of the World.\u201d\u00a0 Zipf was hired to help form COA and turn the tide. Today, the region is a premier tourism destination with vastly improved water quality and cleaner beaches.\u00a0 Zipf remains at the helm of COA, which has grown and evolved to include a web of alliances on many issues and a professional staff of nine full-time employees.\u00a0 <\/strong>Zipf is a graduate of the University of Rhode Island with a bachelor\u2019s in geography and marine affairs, and serves on several national and regional boards. She is honored to have received many local, regional, and national awards on behalf of COA, such as the Monmouth University Urban Coast Institute\u2019s Volunteer of the Year Award for COA\u2019s Waves of Action program to rebuild and restore after Superstorm Sandy.<\/p>\n

Chris Daggett<\/strong> is an independent consultant, providing strategic and operational advice to nonprofit and for-profit organizations in education, community development, local news and information, public policy, and philanthropy.\u00a0 Immediately prior to his current work, Daggett served for over eight years as president and CEO of the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation.\u00a0 In that capacity, he oversaw operations and grantmaking for one of New Jersey\u2019s largest and most respected foundations, raising over $20 million in outside individual and foundation funds to support Dodge initiatives.\u00a0 Immediately prior to joining the Foundation, Daggett ran as an independent candidate for governor of New Jersey.\u00a0 Daggett has been a leader for more than 35 years in the public, private, and nonprofit sectors, serving as deputy chief of staff to Governor Thomas Kean, regional administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, and commissioner of the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection. In addition, he was a managing director of William E. Simon & Sons, a private investment firm, and operated a brownfields development company. He was also a principal with JM Sorge, Inc., an environmental consulting and management firm. \u00a0He holds a bachelor\u2019s degree in interdisciplinary studies from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a doctorate in education from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.<\/p>\n

Tony MacDonald<\/strong> is the director of the Monmouth University Urban Coast Institute (UCI). He was previously the executive director of the Coastal States Organization (CSO) from 1998-2005. CSO, based in Washington, DC, represents the interests of the governors of the nation\u2019s 35 coastal states and territories on coastal and ocean policy matters. Prior to joining CSO, MacDonald was the special counsel and director of environmental affairs at the American Association of Port Authorities, where he represented the International Association of Ports and Harbors (IAPH) at the International Maritime Organization on negotiations on the London Convention. MacDonald has also practiced law with a private firm in Washington, DC, working on environmental and legislative issues, and served as the Washington, DC, environmental legislative representative for the mayor of the City of New York.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

April 5 event is free and open to\u00a0the\u00a0public;\u00a0registration is required Former state\u00a0Sen. Joseph M. Kyrillos\u00a0will moderate “Our Ocean and Beaches: A Record of Success and New Challenges to Face,” on Friday, April 5 at 10 a.m. in the University’s Wilson Auditorium.\u00a0\u00a0This is the\u00a0fourth and final panel discussion he will lead as\u00a0the\u00a02018-2019 Monmouth University Public Servant-in-Residence. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":443,"featured_media":40802235829,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[414],"tags":[],"person":[510,525],"audience":[14,17,11,8,29],"school":[],"program":[],"class_list":["post-40802235818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-campus-life","mediacontact-morganne-dudzinski-director-of-news-public-affairs","person-jkyrillo","person-amacdona","audience-alumni","audience-community-member","audience-current-student","audience-faculty","audience-media"],"squareimage":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40802235818","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/443"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40802235818"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40802235818\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40802252912,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40802235818\/revisions\/40802252912"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40802235829"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40802235818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40802235818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40802235818"},{"taxonomy":"person","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/person?post=40802235818"},{"taxonomy":"audience","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/audience?post=40802235818"},{"taxonomy":"school","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/school?post=40802235818"},{"taxonomy":"program","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/program?post=40802235818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}