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• Marylia Kelley is executive director of the Livermore-based Tri-Valley CAREs. She brings 27 years of in-depth research, writing and facilitating public participation in decisions regarding the Department of Energy weapons complex, Livermore Lab, nuclear weapons, waste and cleanup. Marylia serves on the "Community Work Group" (since 1989) to advise the federal Environmental Protection Agency, state agencies and the community on the Superfund cleanup of Livermore Lab. She has provided input to the National Academy of Sciences National Research Council, including on the proliferation risks of the National Ignition Facility and on toxic and radioactive pollution at the Livermore Lab main site and Site 300. She can often be found speaking at diverse venues, from rallies to international conferences. Marylia has written for numerous publications, including the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. She also serves as editor and principal writer for Tri-Valley' Citizen's Watch newsletter and other publications. Marylia's work with Tri-Valley CAREs has garnered numerous awards over the years, and, in 2002, she was inducted into the Alameda County Women's Hall of Fame. She has a background in journalism and humanities, and graduated summa cum laude from John F. Kennedy University. marylia@trivalleycares.org





• Scott Yundt is Staff Attorney for Tri-Valley CAREs. Scott attended the University of California at Santa Cruz where he double majored in environmental studies and legal studies. He then graduated from the University of San Francisco School of Law, where he received a Public Interest Law Certificate and the Pro Bono Publico Award for his commitment to serving the public interest. During law school Scott interned at Tri-Valley CAREs, where, under the supervision of former staff attorney Loulena Miles, he had the opportunity to work on the initial challenge to Livermore Lab's biowarfare agent research lab. Also during law school, Scott worked as a legal clerk at The Law Office of Stephan Volker, where he worked on numerous environmental cases. As an attorney, Scott associated at Murray & Howard, LLP, where he served as class counsel on complex class actions specializing in business fraud, deceptive practices, breaches of fiduciary and ethical duties by corporate entities, and antitrust practices in major consumer-oriented industries. Scott's present scope of work at Tri-Valley CAREs includes pursuing federal environmental litigation to prevent the collocation of biowarfare agent research facilities and nuclear weapons and right to know litigation under the Freedom of Information act to compel documents the group had requested but never received. Scott manages all of the group's community right to know activities. He also facilitates a support group for local nuclear weapons workers made ill by on the job exposures. Additionally, Scott heads up the group's activities to achieve conversion of Livermore Lab from nuclear weapons to a "green lab" focused on civilian science initiatives. scott@trivalleycares.org



• Iti Talwar Iti is the legal intern at Tri-Valley CAREs, recently passing the California bar. Iti assists the staff attorney in all legal pursuits. Her scope of work includes conducting legal research and writing in support of Tri-Valley CAREs' National Environmental Policy Act challenge to the Livermore Lab biowarfare agent research facility and an ongoing Freedom of Information Act suit. Further, as a FOIA Officer, Iti is responsible for coordinating Tri-Valley CAREs extensive information gathering process, mainly by drafting FOIA requests. She is also in charge of administrative appeals when FOIA requests are denied or insufficiently responded to. Iti graduated from Santa Clara University, School of Law. During law school, Iti worked as a judicial intern at Santa Clara County Superior Court, Family Law Division where she helped clients in family law matters, including divorce, child custody, child support, and property agreements. Iti also volunteered at Katherine and George Alexander Community Law Center, where she worked mainly on Worker's Compensation cases. Prior to law school, Iti attended University of California, Irvine where she majored in Economics.
  
• Peter Strauss began working for Tri-Valley CAREs in 1991 as Technical Advisor on the Superfund cleanup of the Livermore Lab's main site. In the mid-90s, he was also awarded a second contract by Tri-Valley CAREs to analyze data and advise on the Superfund cleanup at the Livermore Lab's site 300 high explosives testing range. His responsibilities include providing detailed analysis of reports, well logs and other technical data on soil and groundwater contaminants and their migration through the environment. Peter also provides the group with comparative analyses of potential or selected remediation technologies and assists with the preparation of written comments on key aspects of the Superfund process. Peter authored Tri-Valley CAREs' Community Guide to the Site 300 Cleanup, as well as its companion guide to the Lab's main site cleanup. Peter has also completed a comprehensive study of plutonium problems at Livermore Lab. He earned a BA from the University of Wisconsin and an MS in Science and Policy from State University of New York.
• Robert Civiak is a Nuclear Policy Analyst under contract to Tri-Valley CAREs (since 2000). Bob brings an extensive knowledge of science, public policy and the DOE budget and programs to his work with the organization. He is the author of a comprehensive analysis of Stockpile Stewardship options for Tri-Valley CAREs. He is also author of the group's analysis of the cost and technical problems at the National Ignition Facility mega-laser. For each of the past ten years, Bob has produced an analysis of the DOE nuclear weapons budget request to Congress for the organization. Bob received a Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Pittsburgh. From 1978 to 1988, he researched and wrote analyses for Members of Congress on science and technology issues as a specialist and then section head with the Congressional Research Service. After a brief stint as a visiting scientist at Livermore Lab in 1988, Bob became a Program Examiner in the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB), where he was employed from November 1988 to July 1999. During his tenure at OMB, Bob's scope of responsibility included the DOE nuclear weapons budget.
• Marion Fulk, staff scientist, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, retired, brings five decades of technical knowledge to Tri-Valley CAREs as one of the group's volunteer technical advisors (since 1988). A chemical physicist, Marion retired from Livermore Lab in 1984 after 18 years there as a staff scientist specializing in chemical physics and material properties. Marion's research included but was not limited to the study of radioactive "rainout" from nuclear weapons test explosions. Marion's work included numerous research projects involving plutonium and tritium, two radionuclides of special concern to Tri-Valley CAREs and the community (as these contaminants have shown up in local parks, rain, groundwater and agricultural products). From 1952 to 1967, Marion was employed by the National Bureau of Standards, Atomic Energy Commission Cryogenic Laboratory in Boulder, Colorado, where he worked on low temperature physics and the properties of materials, including radioactive materials. His background also includes University research in the fields of nuclear physics, chemistry and materials science, including work on neutron scattering cross-sections.
• Judith Flanagan is one of the group's volunteer technical advisors on biological agents and facilities (since 2005). Judith received her Ph.D. in Medicine from the University of New South Wales, Australia. She brings a breadth of knowledge in biology, genetics and medicine to Tri-Valley CAREs' programs. Judith worked at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in the Human Genome Project for three years. In 2005, she took a position at the University of California at San Francisco as a biological researcher specializing in the interactions of pathogens in human health.
• Will Easton serves as Tri-Valley CAREs Web & Information Technology (IT) advisor, and contract webmaster. A former Board Member and Development Director for Tri-Valley CAREs, Will has also served as a Webmaster for the Sierra Club, Adjunct Faculty Instructor for information systems in the Masters of Nonprofit Administration program at the University of San Francisco, and as a "circuit rider" consulting with various nonprofits on IT development. He currently works as Email Czar and Activism Manager at CREDO Mobile (from Working Assets), the San Francisco-based progressive mobile phone company.