Biography
As the Executive Director of New Jersey League of Conservation Voters, Ed Potosnak ensures the organizations are well staffed, resourced, and focused on advancing our mission to hold elected officials accountable to protect and preserve New Jersey natural resources. Building on his experience on Capitol Hill, he applies his environmental, public policy, and government affairs expertise to advancing bold pro-conservation protections in New Jersey by passing laws and regulations to protect our environment.
Born and raised in New Jersey, Ed grew up fishing, swimming and boating in the waters of the Garden State. As a young man, Ed worked alongside his brothers in his parents’ small business manufacturing life-saving communication devices for first responders.
After a decade in the classroom teaching chemistry, Ed sought out an opportunity to improve education and environmental policy and was awarded a highly competitive Albert Einstein Distinguished Educator Fellowship to serve on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, where he crafted policies designed to improve our nation’s health and competitiveness.
Ed is the Chair of the New Jersey Keep it Green Coalition and New Jersey State Lead for the Coalition for the Delaware River Watershed. He is also a member of the Rutgers Glee Club Alumni Advisory Committee, the Board of Sustainable Jersey, and serves as a local elected Council Member and Deputy Mayor in Franklin Township in Somerset County where he was formerly Franklin Township Board of Education President. Outside of work, Ed enjoys the outdoors and applying his chemistry background to hobbies like soap making.
Ed came to New Jersey League of Conservation Voters because he believes that a healthy environment is essential to all of us. Humans can’t live without clean air to breathe or clean water to drink and he can’t think of a more important way to spend his time than protecting our environment.
A healthy environment means we can enjoy life, learn, love, and invent. His favorite part of the job is connecting with the public to guide New Jersey LCV’s work and helping New Jersey families and businesses understand critical environmental issues. In doing this, he hopes to instill the importance of protecting our state’s clean air and water and safeguarding our open space in the minds of every New Jerseyan, both present and future.
Born and raised in New Jersey, Ed grew up fishing, swimming and boating in the waters of the Garden State. As a young man, Ed worked alongside his brothers in his parents’ small business manufacturing life-saving communication devices for first responders.
After a decade in the classroom teaching chemistry, Ed sought out an opportunity to improve education and environmental policy and was awarded a highly competitive Albert Einstein Distinguished Educator Fellowship to serve on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, where he crafted policies designed to improve our nation’s health and competitiveness.
Ed is the Chair of the New Jersey Keep it Green Coalition and New Jersey State Lead for the Coalition for the Delaware River Watershed. He is also a member of the Rutgers Glee Club Alumni Advisory Committee, the Board of Sustainable Jersey, and serves as a local elected Council Member and Deputy Mayor in Franklin Township in Somerset County where he was formerly Franklin Township Board of Education President. Outside of work, Ed enjoys the outdoors and applying his chemistry background to hobbies like soap making.
Ed came to New Jersey League of Conservation Voters because he believes that a healthy environment is essential to all of us. Humans can’t live without clean air to breathe or clean water to drink and he can’t think of a more important way to spend his time than protecting our environment.
A healthy environment means we can enjoy life, learn, love, and invent. His favorite part of the job is connecting with the public to guide New Jersey LCV’s work and helping New Jersey families and businesses understand critical environmental issues. In doing this, he hopes to instill the importance of protecting our state’s clean air and water and safeguarding our open space in the minds of every New Jerseyan, both present and future.