Dick Mark

Biographical Sketch

Dick serves as Consultant Director of PSR’s Safe Energy Program where he guides PSR’s work on ending subsidies for dangerous, expensive and unneeded new nuclear reactors.

He also coordinates the work of a coalition of allied groups working to stop new nuclear power development at the federal and state level.   Dick, a partner with The Buttonwood Partnership based in Florida and Maine, has more than three decades of experience in grassroots organizing, lobbying, media and communications, philanthropy, organizational development and politics. He has served as a consultant to the John Merck Fund, Beldon Fund, Energy Foundation, W. Alton Jones and Surdna Foundations. Dick was the founding director of Conservation Strategies, the first individual "527c" in the nation, working with conservation advocates in Alaska, Idaho, Montana, Oregon and Washington State. He has been Director of Environmental Programs for the Nathan Cummings Foundation. His previous work has also included leadership positions with Union of Concerned Scientists, Professionals’ Coalition for Nuclear Arms Control, Common Cause, International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War, 20/20 Vision. He has previously served on the national boards of Friends of the Earth, Environmental Media Services, and Green Corps. He is also a trustee and chair of the grants committee of Maine Initiatives, a statewide public foundation supporting social justice organizing in Maine.

Phone: 202-587-5242
Email: dmark@psr.org