Endowment Staff Grows with Return of Former Intern, Furman Graduate

U.S. Endowment for Forestry and Communities, Greenville, SC

For IMMEDIATE RELEASE (August 11, 2015)

A former two-time intern at the U.S. Endowment for Forestry and Communities (Endowment), Cameron Tommey, has returned to the organization’s Greenville headquarters in a newly-created position as Director, Legal and Program Compliance.

“In our nine year history we’ve been blessed to have nearly a dozen and a half interns support our team inadvancing our mission,” said Endowment President and CEO Carlton Owen. “Each has added value whilegaining experience that helped them transition either to the next phase in their formal education or as they moved into the professional world.”

“We told Cameron as we sent him off to law school three years ago that someday we hoped that he’d be working for the Endowment,” said Owen. “We made good on our pledge when we contacted Cameronearly in January to see what we could do to get him back in Greenville and on the team.”

Tommey’s addition to the Endowment’s staff marks the seventh professional on the lean team and the fourth based in the Greenville office.

Tommey’s career to date has focused on the nexus between environmental markets and conservation.While in law school, he served as a Law Clerk for the White House’s Council on Environmental Quality — the environmental advisor to the Executive Office of the President. He also gained litigation and environmental consulting experience at law firms in Fairfax and Roanoke, Virginia. In addition to his time at the Endowment while at Furman University, Tommey interned at the Conservation Fund in Washington, D.C., focusing on government relations and federal land conservation.

He was named a Public Policy and International Affairs Fellow at the University of Michigan’s Ford Schoolof Public Policy in 2009. He was also the recipient of a prestigious Compton Mentor Fellowship from the California-based Compton Foundation, funding a year of development work and reforestation programs in rural Guatemala and Honduras. A 2010 graduate of Furman University (Greenville, SC) with a Bachelors of Science in Earth & Environmental Sciences, and a native of Columbus, GA, Tommey received his law degree from Washington & Lee University School of Law (Lexington, VA) in May. He served as a Senior Editor of the Journal of Energy, Climate & the Environment, where his research on the military’s use ofrenewable energy was published.

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For more information contact:
Carlton N. Owen, President & CEO, 864-233-7646, carlton@usendowment.org
The U.S. Endowment for Forestry and Communities (the Endowment) is a not-for-profit public charity working collaboratively with partners in the public and private sectors to advance systemic,transformative, and sustainable change for the health and vitality of the nation’s working forests andforest-reliant communities – www.usendowment.org