Gretchen Gehrke is a founding member of EDGI and leads EDGI’s Website Governance program. She is an environmental and information researcher whose work focuses on the intersection of science and democracy. Gretchen earned her PhD in Environmental Geochemistry at the University of Michigan, and dual bachelor’s degrees in Chemistry and Environmental Earth Sciences at Dartmouth College.
Izzy Pacenza is the Safeguarding Data and Information Project Coordinator for EDGI’s Website Governance working group. Izzy is passionate about understanding how environmental injustices connect to larger social and political systems. Since joining EDGI in 2022, she has worked to advance the environmental right to know by safeguarding and expanding access to critical vulnerable data and information.
Alejandro is an academic librarian who specializes in environment and energy. A volunteer analyst with EDGI since 2019, he is interested in how federal agencies communicate scientific and regulatory information to the public, especially through websites and web-accessible data tools.