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Key Former staff

Many thanks for their years of dedication and hard work at CPR!

David Chatfield, Former Executive Director (1945-2021)

David retired from CPR in 2011 after 14 years as Executive Director of the coalition. Prior to joining CPR in 1997, David was California Director of Clean Water Action. He worked for Greenpeace for ten years before that, primarily as the Southwest Regional Executive Director, but also as International Pesticide Coordinator, and, for two years, Chair of the Greenpeace national board of directors. From 1977 to 1985, he was International Director of Friends of the Earth. David worked with the American Friends Service Committee in the 1970’s. In his retirement, David was Chair of the national Greenpeace Fund Board, and served on the boards of Pesticide Action Network, Oregon Physicians for Social Responsibility, California Sustainable Agriculture Working Group, the Global Greengrants Fund and California-based Greenaction. Apart from his many contributions to social and environmental justice movements, maybe the most notable characteristic of David is that he made everyone lucky enough to spend time with him better, more compassionate and kinder human beings. David’s memory and spirit lives on through all those he touched, and he is greatly missed.

Teresa DeAnda, Former Central Valley Coordinator (1959 – 2014)

In addition to being CPR’s coordinator in the San Joaquin Valley from 2003 until 2012, Teresa was the President and Director of El Comite Para el Bienestar de Earlimart, in Earlimart, a small farmworker town in Tulare County, California’s Central Valley. Teresa started the organization as a direct result of a drift accident that occurred in Earlimart in November 1999, when a toxic cloud of pesticides drifted onto her agriculture-surrounded community, making 180 people ill. Teresa testified many times on the need for adequate response to poisoning events to the California Department of Pesticide Regulation. She spoke at CPR’s February, 2003 Drift Conference on the theme, “Absolutely Never Do Nothing.” Teresa served on the advisory boards of the Center on Race, Poverty and the Environment and Latino Issues Forum. Teresa was diagnosed with cancer in 2012. In October 2014, she passed away. Teresa was an environmental justice warrior and a tireless advocate for community rights in the face of environmental justice abuses. Teresa has left a deep legacy and will be missed deeply: her contribution to the environmental justice movement was profound, and her contribution to each of our lives – through her laughter, kindness, creativity and playfulness – remains strongly in our hearts. We will continue to fight for community health in her honor.

Tracey Brieger, Former Co-Director

Tracey worked with CPR from 2002 to 2015. She helped develop and lead the Safe Air for Everyone (SAFE) Campaign and the coalition’s sustainable agriculture work.