Jackie Savitz
Senior Scientist and Senior Campaign Director
Washington, DC, USA
Jacqueline Savitz is a Senior Scientist and Senior Campaign Director for Oceana. Savitz leads Oceana’s Pollution Campaigns, focusing on climate change, oil and gas, and clean energy, specifically offshore wind. Jackie’s background and training in marine biology and environmental toxicology combined with two decades of policy experience provides Oceana with a combination of sound science and clear environmental vision. Savitz is an expert in marine pollution issues including oil, mercury, beach water quality, cruise ships and toxics among others.
Prior to working with Oceana, Savitz served as Executive Director of Coast Alliance, a network of over 600 organizations around the country working to protect our priceless coasts from pollution and development. In the mid-nineties, Jacqueline worked as an environmental policy analyst with the Environmental Working Group in Washington, D.C. There her focus was on the public health effects of water and air pollution. In that capacity she authored a series of reports on water pollution, point source discharges, air quality standards, fish contamination and medical waste disposal. Jacqueline first worked as an environmental scientist with the Chesapeake Bay Foundation where she spent nearly five years on Chesapeake Bay pollution issues including toxics and point source pollution.
Jacqueline earned her master’s degree in environmental science with emphasis in toxicology from the University of Maryland, Chesapeake Biological Laboratory, where her work focused on the effects of contaminants on aquatic life. She earned her bachelor’s degree in marine science and biology from the University of Miami, in Florida.
