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ROBERT STEWART
Executive Director
202/408-1273
rstewart [at] rcap.org
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Robert has served as RCAP Executive Director since January 2006. He has 25 years of experience in the rural utility field, including the provision of technical and training assistance to water and wastewater systems, water-quality management, regulatory compliance, financial and managerial capacity development, training for managers and boards of rural utilities, utility financing, contract management and consulting for local government entities. Formerly, Robert was the Executive Director for the Texas Water Utilities Association (TWUA), a 9,000-member professional association of water and wastewater operators. Prior to TWUA, he was employed at the Texas Rural Water Association (TRWA), where he served in several capacities, including State Contract Manager, Professional Development and Training Director, and Associate Executive Director. Prior to his employment with TRWA, Stewart served as Texas Director for Community Resource Group, the Southern RCAP, where he oversaw a statewide program that provided direct, onsite technical assistance and training for small, low-income rural communities in the areas of water and wastewater utilities and affordable housing. In addition, he has held positions with the Texas Public Utility Commission, the Texas Department of Agriculture and the University of Texas. Robert also served in the U.S. Navy for six years as a Surface Warfare Officer. He holds a B.A. and a Master of Public Affairs from The University of Texas at Austin. |
JOY BARRETT
Director of Training and Technical Services (based in Boulder, Colo.)
Direct line: 303/545-0964 (note: Area code is in Colorado)
jbarrett [at] rcap.org
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Joy joined the RCAP national office in May 2003 and leads the RCAP network’s Training Work Group, which establishes national training priorities and programs and facilitates the exchange of materials and resources among the RCAP regions. She is the RCAP network’s lead on operator recruitment, retention, training and support. Joy has a doctorate in environmental engineering from the University of Colorado and 25 years of experience working with community development organizations providing water and wastewater technical assistance to small communities both in the United States and in developing countries. Joy is co-supervisor of a Water Fundamentals operator training course and is active with the Small Systems Division of the American Water Works Association. |
DAVID CLARK
Director of Environmental Programs
Direct line: 202/470-2803
dclark [at] rcap.org
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Dave came to work at RCAP’s national office in 2005 after serving as an RCAP Technical Assistance Provider in West Virginia for 11 years. He has worked in all of RCAP’s programs over the years, including drinking water, wastewater, and solid waste infrastructure-related work. He has also received grants extending the RCAP work in watershed, source water and telecommunications areas. Dave was very involved in The National Drinking Water Advisory Council’s Measures Testing Group, the RCAP Native American Task Force and is currently the RCAP database administrator. Dave is also part of the EPA’s Decentralized MOU and Water Security Division Partners groups. Previous to joining RCAP, Dave was a laboratory technician. Dave has a B.A. in biology from West Virginia University, specializing in environmental sciences (water) and recombinant DNA technology. |
ARI NEUMANN
Director of Policy Development and Applied Research
Direct line: 202/470-1571
aneumann [at] rcap.org
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Ari joined the RCAP national office in September 2010. He is originally from the small town of Genesee, in rural Idaho. He has a B.A. in American Studies from Stanford University with a concentration in American Environmental Policy and a J.D. from the University of Washington School of Law in Seattle, Wash., where he studied water, environmental, and administrative law. Prior to joining RCAP, he served as a legal intern for U.S. Senator Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.) and at the Natural Resources Defense Council in Washington, DC.
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ELEANOR LLOYD
Director of Finance
Direct line: 202/470-2810
elloyd [at] rcap.org
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Eleanor began working for RCAP in August 2009. She has more than 35 years of experience in the bookkeeping and accounting field with a wide variety of clients, in particular many nonprofit organizations that receive federal government funding. She works for RCAP on a part-time basis and thus works with other clients. She has a wealth of experience with A-133 audits, Federal and District of Columbia grant applications and governmental reporting requirements. Eleanor returned to the Washington, D.C., area after three years in Florida as the Director of Finance for the Humane Society of Greater Miami. |
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STEPHEN PADRE
Director of Communications
Direct line: 202/470-2808
spadre [at] rcap.org
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Stephen joined the RCAP staff in June 2009. He has spent nearly all of his career as a communicator for nonprofit organizations except for one year early in his career when he was an editor for a national personal-finance magazine. Immediately prior to coming to RCAP, he lived and worked overseas - in Geneva, Switzerland as a communicator for a faith-based international disaster-response organization and then in Nairobi, Kenya as a free-lance communicator, working mostly for faith-based international relief and development organizations. Stephen grew up in Seattle and has a B.S. in journalism from Boston University. |
