WHF EARTH DAY INTRO - Tiffany Schauer & Annie Beaman, Ambassadors for the Environment

Tiffany Schauer
Founder & President OCE
Tiffany founded Our Children’s Earth Foundation (OCE) in 1998 after many years in various environmental justice and litigation positions specializing in enforcement and compliance. In addition to her private sector attorney experience with Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison, which represented the industry in environmental litigation, she was appointed to the Hearing Board of the Bay Area Air Quality Management District (BAAQMD). Prior to her work in the Bay Area, Tiffany worked at the Federal Environmental Protection Agency in Washington, DC in a variety of key legal roles. Tiffany is admitted to practice law as a member of the State Bars of California, Pennsylvania, and the District of Columbia.

Tiffany served in various environmental regulatory roles prior to founding OCE in 1998. Her varied positions, include serving as an enforcement attorney at the Environmental Protection Agency, working as a Senior Attorney at a major environmental law firm, and adjudicating Clean Air Act permit disputes at the Bay Area Air Quality Management District Hearing Board. During the course of her career, she discovered that the attacks on environmental regulatory standards and enforcement program funding decisions are not occurring in statehouses and legislative sessions, where the glare of public attention would be too great. Instead, the attacks most often occur in bureaucratic backrooms, out of the public eye, in obscure government departments where polluting industries can influence the decision-making process without risking the wrath of public opposition. The form of the threat is as basic as it is destructive — our environmental laws simply are not being enforced adequately to ensure public safety and basic environmental protections. Since 1998, Tiffany has led OCE to enforce some of the largest environmental law violation actions in the United States.

Over the past 20 plus years, Tiffany has expanded OCE’s efforts beyond regulatory citizen enforcement to include communicating the issues of government corruption, abuse of power, and needed transparency by addressing these issues in documentary film. Tiffany spearheaded the initiative to bring OCE’s message to the storytelling genre of film through collaborating on dozens of breakthrough documentaries including, Total Denial, Garbage Dreams, Island President, The C Word, Death by Design, How to Change the World, Sempre Fi, Last Animals, The Devil We Know, Youth v. Gov, and Deep Rising.

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Annie Beaman
Annie is the Director of Advocacy and Outreach for Our Children’s Earth Foundation. She focuses on helping grassroots groups to implement strategic advocacy campaigns around environmental justice and policy change. Annie is also a gardener and a member of a multigenerational farming family that emphasizes regenerative land stewardship. Annie is an organizer, communicator, and advocate who is dedicated to preserving and protecting our interconnected ecosystems. During the past several years, Annie has redoubled her efforts in support of local initiatives aimed at community health and resiliency during this time of unprecedented climate chaos.

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