Angela Guyadeen

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NRDC

Director - Safe Water Initiative

expertise:

Health, Racial + environmental justice, Water quality

state: IL

city: Chicago

LGBTQ: NO

Tribal Affiliation: NO

languages: English

race + ethnicity: East Asian (eg: Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Taiwanese), South Asian (eg: Indian, Pakistani, Nepali, Bangladeshi)

Angela is an expert on the politics of safe drinking water policy-making. She is an innovative public communications strategist with experience centering equity as a core value and developing issue campaigns for government, nonprofit, community and corporate sectors. At NRDC, she works to establish an enforceable human right to water that is safe, sufficient and affordable from source to tap. Tapping into community partnerships, she leverages more than 20 years of experience in advocacy and communications to frame issues that motivate people and politicians to care and take action.

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Water rights + policies

Activists rally for the removal of lead pipes in Chicago and strong EPA rules: ‘It’s a harsh reality we’re facing daily’ – Chicago Tribune

When Sukky Bleck’s infant son was diagnosed last year with bilateral hydronephrosis, a condition preventing urine from draining from the kidney into the bladder, she