Full Name: Tom McKeon 

Position: GWA Board Member

One of our student board members, Tom is a graduate student at the University of Pennsylvania studying public health with a focus on environmental health. He holds a B.S. in ecology and natural resources from Rutgers University where he concentrated on watershed ecology. He works as a coordinator for The Community Outreach and Engagement Core (COEC) at the Center of Excellence in Environmental Toxicology at the University of Pennsylvania. Tom has worked in maintaining and improving water quality through community education, biological sampling, chemical sampling, and designing restoration proposals. At Penn, Tom uses statistics, GIS and epidemiological concepts to study place-based interventions to improve community health.