Mike Gross is Associate Director of the New Jersey Regional Coalition, working with faith-based congregations and community organizations to address public policy issues including sprawl, economic and racial segregation, and public school funding on a regional level. He worked two years as a Policy Advocate for the Coalition for Affordable Housing and the Environment in New Jersey, where he coordinated policy working groups and subsequently wrote recommendations adopted by the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection. As President and a founder of the watershed protection group Friends of the Monoshone Creek in Philadelphia, PA, he helped win a $1 million repair by the City of Philadelphia to protect the Monoshone Creek. Mike also works as a Jewish educator, and worked in New Jersey as an Americorps volunteer doing environmental education, stream monitoring and environmental justice organizing.