Florida Office
233 3rd Street North, Suite
300
St. Petersburg, Florida 33701
727.388.3654
727.388.4284 (fax)
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Brett Paben, Senior Staff Attorney
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Brett Paben started at WildLaw after graduating from the University of Oregon School of Law in 2000,
with his J.D. and a certificate in Environmental and Natural Resources Law. Brett also holds bachelors' degrees in
International Affairs and Environmental Studies from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Wildlife Ecology and
Conservation from the University of Florida. Brett works on public lands, endangered species and anti-pollution related issues, with a
particular focus on National Forests.
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Jeanne Zokovitch has worked for a number of
local, state, national and international,
environmental non-profits since 1992 on a variety
of issues including: environmental health,
environmental justice, contaminated sites,
endangered species, clean air issues, clean water
issues and safe drinking water.
Her non-profit background includes legal
work, regulatory work, state and federal
legislative work, community education and
organizing, fundraising and grant management.
She has a bachelor’s degree from the
University of Florida in political science, a
Masters of Studies in Environmental Law from
Vermont Law School and a law degree from the
University of California, Hastings College of the
Law in San Francisco.
Amongst her accomplishments, Jeanne was
awarded a prestigious Equal Justice Works (formerly
NAPIL) fellowship to work for two years in Florida
with two environmental justice communities
overburdened by pollution and disease to identify
systemic issues which keep these communities from
realizing their hard fought environmental
victories. Jeanne
works on a number of issues with WildLaw but
focuses on helping WildLaw better coordinate and
increase efforts working with communities impacted
by pollution.
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Jeanne Zokovitch Paben,
Senior Staff Attorney/ACES Program Director
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Matt
O'Malley graduated from the University of Colorado
School of Law in 2002 with his J.D., and he has B.A.
degrees in both Native American Studies and
Anthropology from Rutgers University. He is also a
licensed in Washington State where he previously
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Originally from Cleveland,
Ohio, Rachel has just moved to St. Petersburg,
where she works as the Programs Assistant in
WildLaw’s Florida Office. Rachel recently graduated
from Antioch College (Yellow Springs, Ohio) where
she studied History, Literature and Philosophy,
receiving her B.A. in Philosophy after three years.
Throughout the last several years Rachel has worked
for and interned with various nonprofit
environmental groups including the Environmental
Working Group, Ohio Citizen Action and Global
Community Monitor as well as Wilkes University,
where she worked as a field technician for the
Biology Department.
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