David Kershner

Dave Kershner, Sightline fellow, has conducted environmental research for regional and national nonprofit organizations, including American Rivers and the Institute for Energy and Environmental Research. He contributed research for Tax Shift, Sightline’s 1998 book on greening Cascadia’s tax system, and co-authored our 2007 report, Bulk Discounts for Polluters. After graduate studies at the University of Michigan’s School of Natural Resources and Environment, he co-founded a land conservancy on one of the San Juan Islands and spent nine years protecting farmland and natural areas there. When not doing research for Sightline, he is a consultant on documentary film and television projects.