Ms. Korinn Petersen, Esq., vice president for Clean Water Advocacy at the Buzzards Bay Coalition, will be the featured speaker at the Mattapoisett Women’s Club on Thursday, February 16 at 11:30 am at the Mattapoisett Congregational Church, 27 Church Street, Mattapoisett. Attorney Petersen will discuss her advocacy work on behalf of the Coalition and focus on the long-term sustainable use of Buzzards Bay by managing both local and regional projects designed to reduce nitrogen pollution from wastewater. Attorney Petersen is admitted to practice law in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. She graduated from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst with a BS degree, cum laude, in Resource Economics. She received a Master of Studies in Environmental Law, cum laude, and a Juris Doctor from Vermont Law School.
The Buzzards Bay Coalition adopted an ambitious Strategic Plan that highlighted the need for more advocacy if the Coalition was going to live up to the promise of its founders to Save Buzzards Bay. As always, Mattapoisett Women’s Club programs are open to the community please join us on Thursday, February 16, at 11:30 am and learn about the decades of hard work and significant resources invested in reducing pollution, saving vital watershed lands and making Buzzards Bay more resilient in the face of climate change.