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SUSAN B. KAPLAN, J.D.
Outreach Activities Coordinator, Institute for Environmental Science and Policy
Visiting Research Coordinator, Great Lakes Center for Environmental and Occupational Health and Safety
University of Illinois at Chicago
2121 West Taylor Street
545 SPHW, MC 922
Chicago, IL 60612
Phone: 312-995-0738
Email: kaplans@uic.edu
J.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison Law School, 1991
B.A., Psychology Major, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1986
Susan Kaplan is the Principal Investigator on U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Brownfields Training, Research and Technical Assistance Grant, “Best Management Practices and Benefits of Sustainable Redevelopment of Brownfield Sites.” The five-year research and technical assistance project, involving seven researchers from UIC, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, as well as two technical advisors, will run from 2009 until 2013. Please visit the Sustainable Brownfields Consortium website for more details: http://www.brownfields.uic.edu/
Ms. Kaplan has had 19 years of experience in environmental policy, practice and research, focusing on brownfields, sustainable development, and environmental health. Her other projects at UIC have included developing research projects to promote sustainability in the health care sector and editing a series of white papers on that subject; co-writing a report on best practices for increasing building deconstruction and building material reuse; and providing technical assistance to communities on accessing federal funding. Prior to coming to UIC, she managed the brownfields program at the Rhode Island Economic Development Corporation, where she applied for and administered Brownfields Assessment and Brownfields Cleanup Revolving Loan Fund grants from U.S. EPA, working with borrowers and subgrantees to meet underwriting, community outreach, and environmental requirements for brownfields funding. She also conducted policy research and writing on brownfields and sustainable development issues. Prior to that position, she served as assistant director of an energy policy group at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government and was a staff attorney at a federal agency in Washington, DC.