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Special advisors

David Freeman, Senior advisor

S. David Freeman is a senior advisor with Friends of the Earth’s nuclear campaign. He has more than four decades of experience directing federal, regional and local energy policies. He was appointed chairman of the Tennessee Valley Authority by Jimmy Carter in 1977, where he stopped the construction of eight large nuclear power plants and pioneered a massive energy conservation program. Subsequently, David served for two decades as general manager of several large public power agencies including the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power, the New York Power Authority and the Sacramento Municipal Utility District. David is a renowned expert on clean energy, efficiency and the risks of nuclear power. He holds a B.S. in Civil Engineering from Georgia Tech, and an L.L.B. from the University of Tennessee. He wrote Energy: The New Era in 1974, and Winning Our Energy Independence: An Energy Insider Shows How in 2007.

Campaign consultants

Shaun Burnie, Nuclear campaign consultant

Shaun Burnie is a nuclear and energy consultant with Friends of the Earth. He has been a campaigner or consultant on nuclear issues for nearly 30 years, primarily with Greenpeace International. He specializes in nuclear reactor safety in East Asia, and for more than two decades he has worked intensively on Japan’s nuclear fuel cycle programs, including spearheading an investigatory campaign against Tokyo Electric Power Company -- the operator of the reactors at Fukushima Daiichi. Shaun has been a featured speaker at many national and international forums and his research has appeared in international journals including Oxford Research Group, Bulletin of Atomic Scientists and Japan Focus. He holds a degree in Modern History from Polytechnic of North London and a master’s degree in Strategic Studies from Kings College at the University of London.

Mike Carberry, Iowa campaign coordinator

Mike Carberry is the Iowa nuclear campaigner for Friends of the Earth. He also serves as the director of Green State Solutions, an Iowa based consulting firm specializing in advocacy, outreach and campaign organizing around environmental issues including nuclear power, global climate change, renewable energy and sustainability. In the past, Mike has worked with groups like the Iowa Global Warming Campaign, the Iowa Renewable Energy Association, the Iowa Sierra Club, the Union of Concerned Scientists, Iowa Physicians for Social Responsibility, the Distributed Wind Energy Association and the American Wind Energy Association. Mike is a graduate of the University of Iowa with a B.B.A. in Marketing and a minor in Communications.

Fred Felleman, Northwest consultant

Fred Felleman is a longtime maritime activist and whale biologist who is leading our work in the Pacific Northwest to reduce the significant air and water pollution and harm to marine mammals caused by the shipping industry in Puget Sound, the Salish Sea and the Olympic Coast National Marine Sanctuary. He currently serves on the Puget Sound Harbor Safety Committee, the Puget Sound Partnership Oil Spill Advisory Committee and the Strait of Juan de Fuca Regional Network. Fred holds an M.S. from the University of Washington’s College of Ocean and Fisheries Sciences.