William Pease
William Pease is a leading Internet strategists for the U.S. nonprofit community. Dr. Pease has over 20 years of experience as a manager, scientist and organizer; working with national public interest organizations, universities and state and federal government. In June 2000, Pease founded a commercial venture, GetActive Software, which provides member relationship management and communications solutions to nonprofit organizations. The company and its team power several award-winning web services for national environmental organizations, including scorecard.org (an environmental information service) and actionnetwork.org (the largest online collaborative community of environmental activists). GetActive's solutions enable large organizations with complex networks to share a common communications platform. The company also powers givevoice.org (the activism hub for the U.S. nonprofit community), unionvoice.org (the activism hub for the U.S. labor movement), and pbsmail.org (the communications hub for the Public Broadcasting System).
Prior to founding GetActive, Pease was Director of Internet Projects at Environmental Defense. As the senior scientist in ED's environmental health program, he created scorecard.org. This database-backed web provides the public with easy access to understandable information about local environmental quality across the U.S. The site makes the delivery of personalized, actionable environmental information appear easy, but the service utilizes state-of-the-art technology from several fields to make this possible. Scorecard integrates over 400 diverse environmental and demographic datasets, making it one of the most complicated and advanced sites on the web in terms of informatics.
Dr. Pease is a toxicologist by training. He is an assistant adjunct professor at the School of Public Health, University of California at Berkeley, where he teaches graduate classes in risk assessment and risk management. From 1992 through 1995, Dr. Pease was a research toxicologist at UC Berkeley, where he coordinated the school's Environmental Health Policy Program and conducted research on the impacts of pesticide use in California. Dr. Pease served as the co-chair of the Human Health Committee of CalEPA's Comparative Risk Project, organizing its risk assessment and risk ranking process. He has worked with a variety of regulatory agencies, including positions as an environmental planner with the San Francisco Bay Regional Water Quality Control Board and as a policy analyst with the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Management. His research interests include enviroinformatics, quantitative risk assessment methods and use of information disclosure as a strategy for reducing chemical risks. He holds a B.A. from Yale University, and an M.S. in Energy and Resources and a Ph.D. in Environmental Health Sciences from UC Berkeley. Dr. Pease was also a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University, England.