Email: abednarek@pewtrusts.org

Address:
Washington, D.C.

Angela Bednarek manages the Pew Environment Group’s Ocean Science Division, where she works on science outreach to policymakers and decision makers.

Before joining Pew, Bednarek was a foreign affairs officer and an American Association for the Advancement of Science diplomacy fellow at the U.S. Department of State’s Office of Environmental Policy. In addition, she was the U.S. representative to the U.N. Dams and Development Project. She has held several fellowships in environmental policy, including one at the Earth Institute at New York’s Columbia University and a Morris K. Udall fellowship in environmental public policy and conflict resolution. She was also a consultant for the Tennessee Valley Authority on mitigating the effects of dams on rivers.

Bednarek holds a bachelor’s degree in biology and studio art from the University of Notre Dame, a master’s degree in biology and aquatic ecology from the University of Louisville and a doctorate in biology from the University of Pennsylvania.