OCI Staff & Board at Oil Change

OCI Staff & Board

OCI Staff

STEVE KRETZMANN
Executive Director
steve [at] priceofoil.org

Steve Kretzmann has worked on energy issues and the global oil industry for the last twenty years. After eight years with Greenpeace USA, he served as the environmental advisor to Ken Saro-Wiwa and the Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People in Nigeria and was a co-founder of the human rights and environmental organization Project Underground. In 1997, he conducted the first independent soil and water samples in Ogoni, which quantified the Ogoni claim of Shell’s pollution and double standards on their land. He has also successfully campaigned to keep Florida’s coast free from oil & gas drilling and represented various organizations at UN environmental negotiations.

While at the Institute for Policy Studies, Steve helped coordinate a global civil society effort to engage in the World Bank’s Extractive Industries Review, which recommended an end to Bank support for coal and oil projects. He has authored numerous articles and reports and is a regular commentator on issues of corporate accountability, transparency, the global oil industry, environmental and human rights.

Steve founded Oil Change International in 2005 in order to carry out strategic, systemic campaigns focused on the oil industry. He lives outside of Washington DC.

NADINE BLOCH
Organizing Director
nadine [at] priceofoil.org

Since 1980, Nadine has been involved with peace and environmental justice issues as an organizer and coordinator of non-violent direct action campaigns, both locally and internationally, marine and land based. Her experience includes facilitating workshops in active non-violence skills, political performance/street theater, puppet and prop-construction, campaign development, strategic planning and much more. With a degree in environmental studies and politics, and many years as a formal and informal educator, Nadine has worked with diverse organizations including the National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration, Greenpeace, N.O.W., Conservation International, Clearwater, the Ruckus Society as well as with Bread & Puppet Theater.

Nadine has held USCoast Guard 100 Ton Near Coastal and 6 Passenger Ocean Vessel and EMT (Emergency Medical Technician) Licenses. Her work has been featured in MS Magazine (June/July 2001: Bringing down Big Money with Big Puppets) and on CNN/Time (Nov 21, 1999.)

She lives in the People’s Republic of Takoma Park with her daughter, giant puppets and a biodiesel processor.

KENNY BRUNO
Senior Campaigner
kenny [at] priceofoil.org

Kenny worked for 13 years at Greenpeace on toxics, oil and trade issues. He was UN Project Director at CorpWatch and Campaigns Coordinator at EarthRights International. Kenny has taught courses in advocacy, human rights and environment at NYU. He is the co-author of two books: Greenwash, the Reality behind Corporate Environmentalism and Earthsummit.biz: The Corporate Takeover of Sustainable Development. Kenny is also the co-founder of indigenous leadership training programs for human rights and environmental protection, one in Ecuador and one in Peru.

He is fluent in Spanish and country music.

TRINA ZAHLLER
Outreach Coordinator
trina [at] priceofoil.org

Originally from Northwest Montana, Trina was born with a passion for wilderness, peace and social justice issues. As an undergraduate she uncovered the connection between militarization, the drug war and environmental degradation in her studies of US foreign policy and aid to Colombia. Driven to figure out how communities can recover and rebuild from such devastation, Trina completed a Masters of Development Planning as a Rotary Scholar in Australia and worked on a post-conflict reconstruction project in East Timor. She created student leadership and service programs for AmeriCorps while living in Missoula, MT, and in 2001 she helped develop the first student volunteer organization at the University of Queensland in Australia. Since 2004, Trina has used her outreach and project management experience to confront our wars on people and the environment through her work at VotersForPeace, the Marijuana Policy Project, the Criminal Justice Policy Foundation, and Oil Change International.