Cambridge Cooperative Sustainability Lecture Series Presents:
“Keeping Our Water Systems
Public”
Denise Hart
Monday February 7th at 6:30

64 Wendell St., Cambridge, MA

Denise Hart is the New England Director, organizing, supervising staff and coordinating initiatives to protect our water and food resources inthe public interest. She joined Food & Water Watch in 2008 after spending eight years organizing in southern New Hampshire to stop a bottledwater company from setting up shop in her rural community (not one bottle sold yet!) and changing state laws to better protect groundwateras a public trust. This experience changed her into a passionate advocate for advancing policy to establish water as a human and ecological rightand keeping water accessible, clean, and managed sustainably in the public interest. Denise is a member of the board of directors of the NewEngland Grassroots Environment Fund and Save Our Groundwater, and serves on the New Hampshire Citizens Trade Policy Commission of thestate legislature that investigates and recommends policy changes about the impacts of international trade agreements. She previously workedfor many years as a writer and communications specialist producing many articles and two documentaries on topics such as sustainability, greenbuilding and the humanities for regional and national audiences.