Areas of Specialization:

California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA)

National Environmental Protection Act (NEPA)

Urban and Land Use Planning

Sustainable and Smart Growth Policy

Water Quality Issues

Grassroots Political Planning

Christine Bradley, Consultant,
Coldstream Sustainability Group

MA, International Environmental Policy, Monterey Institute of International Policy; BA International Relations/French, University of California at Davis; Certificat d'Etudes Politiques, L’Institut d’Etudes Politiques, Lyon, France.

Prior to her current position as a Environmental and Land Use Planner with EMC Planning Group Inc. in Monterey, California, Christine worked in the Bay Area in the field of affordable housing finance. She has also spent ample time abroad involved in the field of environmental policy. In 1998, she spent the year studying at the L’Institut d’Etudes Politiques, a political science school in Lyon, France, where she focused her studies on environmental and global health policy. In 2005, she spent a month on the islands of Chuuk State in the Federated States of Micronesia, where she was a member of a team that produced two environmental impact assessments for the local government. She has also worked for the World Conservation Union in Pretoria, South Africa, assisting in the writing, editing and publication of a synthesis document addressing impacts on groundwater quality in aquifers near the city of Johannesburg. Christine is currently the President of the Monterey Bay Chapter of the Association of Environmental Professionals and a founding member of the Monterey Chapter of The Surfrider Foundation.