Lee will discuss the effects on overburdened communities from flooding in New Jersey, how low income and communities of color are especially vulnerable and how a utility can be a tool in assisting.

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Lee M. Clark is the Environmental Justice Policy Manager for New Jersey League of Conservation Voters. A resident of Phillipsburg, Lee received his bachelor’s degree in Political Science and master's degree in Business Communication from Rider University. Prior to his current work with state and municipal environmental policy, Lee managed New Jersey League of Conservation Voters’ and Conservation Voters of Pennsylvania’s bi-state volunteer ladder of engagement program within the Delaware River Watershed. Lee has also worked as the Field Director for New Jersey League of Conservation Voters Education Fund’s Green in ’17 campaign, an initiative to raise awareness around prominent environmental issues including clean energy, clean drinking water, open space preservation, and environmental justice.

Before joining the New Jersey LCV team, Lee worked in Pennsylvania on Hillary Clinton’s 2016 Presidential campaign, coordinating canvasses, voter registration drives, phone banks, and volunteer recruitment. Lee also has local and state-level campaign experience including Tom Malinowski’s 2018 U.S. House of Representatives campaign, Bonnie Watson Coleman’s 2014 U.S. House of Representatives campaign, and Cory Booker’s 2013 U.S. Senate campaign. Lee served on the Phillipsburg Town Council, becoming the first African American Councilman in the town’s 158-year history, and served on the Phillipsburg Housing Authority as a Commissioner, appointed by Governor Phil Murphy in 2019. With unanimous Freeholder Board support, Lee currently serves an appointment on the Warren County Local Advisory Committee on Alcoholism and Drug Abuse.

An avid outdoorsman from a young age, Lee enjoys hiking New Jersey’s numerous beautiful trails and parks.