Board of Directors

BRENT FEWELL

Brent is the chairman of ESA. He is the Founder and Chair of the Earth & Water Group, has over 25 years experience in environmental public policy, advocacy, and law. Prior to Earth & Water, Brent served as a senior official in the George W. Bush Administration at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, an environmental executive with an international water and waste company, and practiced law with several international law firms.  As a leading conservative voice on environmental problem-solving, in 2012, Brent founded the multi-blogger platform, Conservefewell, devoted to advancing principles of conservative environmentalism. 

Brent is a graduate of the University of Maine with a B.S. in Wildlife Management (magna cum laude), Duke University where he received his Master’s in Environmental Management, and Duquesne University School of Law.

Kameran Onley

Kameran Onley is Director of U.S. Government Relations for The Nature Conservancy. Prior to joining the Nature Conservancy, she served as Associate Vice President with PBS&J, Inc., an environmental engineering firm focused on large-scale ecosystem restoration. Kameran was acting Assistant Secretary for Water and Science at Department of the Interior during the George W. Bush Administration, where she provided policy development, management, and oversight to the projects and programs of the Bureau of Reclamation and the U.S. Geological Survey.  She served as the principal advisor to the Interior Department Secretary and Deputy Secretary on significant environmental policy issues, such as Everglades’s restoration, western water issues, and ocean and coastal matters.  She was also Associate Director for Environmental Policy at the White House Council on Environmental Quality.  

Kameran received a B.S. in Economics from Seattle University, and a Masters in Agricultural Economics from Clemson University.

Jim Presswood

Jim is the president of ESA.  Jim was the Federal Energy Policy Director at the Natural Resources Defense Council. He was also a staff attorney at the Southern Alliance for Clean Energy and the Legal Environmental Assistance Foundation where his focus was on clean energy and air pollution reduction policies.

Jim is a former chairman of the Arlington County Republican Committee in Virginia. He is a graduate of the University of Tennessee (B.A., political science) and the Cumberland School of Law in Birmingham, Alabama