Nora Ellertsen
is MASSPIRG's Development Associate. She is responsible for organizing
outreach to MASSPIRG's membership base and expanding the oranization's
financial and political resources. Nora joined staff as part of the
PIRG Fellowship Program in 2003, working with MASSPIRG and the other
State PIRGs in New England on federal environmental and consumer
protection campaigns including national forest preservation and
advocacy for the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. She then spent a year
directing an outreach office for U.S.PIRG, MASSPIRG's national lobby
office, in Washington, D.C. Nora graduated with honors from New York
University in 2003 with a degree in Individualized Studies focused on
progressive environmental activism.
