RISE 2019 Conference

Janet McCabe is Director of the Indiana University Environmental Resilience Institute and the Prepared for Environmental Change Grand Challenge Initiative. She is also Professor of Practice at the Indiana University McKinney School of Law. From 2017-2019, she was a Senior Law Fellow with the Environmental Law and Policy Center in addition to her IU positions at McKinney and as Assistant Director for Policy and Implementation for the Institute. From 2009 through 2016, Janet worked in USEPA’s Office of Air and Radiation, first as Principal Deputy and then as Acting Assistant Administrator. Prior to joining EPA, Janet McCabe was Executive Director of Improving Kids’ Environment, Inc., a children’s environmental health advocacy organization based in Indianapolis, Indiana and was an adjunct faculty member at the Indiana University School of Medicine, Department of Public Health, and at the School of Public and Environmental Affairs.  From 1993 to 2005, Ms. McCabe held several leadership positions in the Indiana Department of Environmental Management’s Office of Air Quality and was the office’s Assistant Commissioner from 1998 to 2005. Before coming to Indiana in 1993, Ms. McCabe served as Assistant Attorney General for environmental protection for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and Assistant Secretary for Environmental Impact Review. Ms. McCabe grew up in Washington, DC and graduated from Harvard College in 1980 and Harvard Law School in 1983.