OUR CONSULTING TEAM

Andy Winer

Executive Vice President at Strategies 360

Andy Winer brings a wealth of experience to the NOPC team. Previously, he served as Director of External Affairs and Director of Strategic Initiatives and Partnerships at the National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) during the Obama administration where he coordinated engagement strategies throughout the agency and was heavily involved in inter-agency outreach following the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. Andy also served as the Co-Chair of the United States Coral Reef Task Force. Later, during his six-year stint serving as the chief of staff for U.S. Senator Brian Schatz of Hawaii, Andy spearheaded the expansion of the Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument while running a high functioning U.S. Senate office.

After earning his B.A. in political science and history from UCLA and J.D from the UC Berkeley School of Law, Andy lived and practiced law in Hawaii for over 20 years. Andy's personal relationship with the ocean began the day he was born at the Naval Academy Hospital in Annapolis, Maryland, and blossomed as an avid tide pool explorer and boogie border as he grew up in Southern California.

Erin Eastwood

Ocean Policy Consultant at Blue Spark Strategies

Eliot Littlefield is a marine conservation biologist and ocean policy consultant at Blue Spark Strategies, with broad experience connecting science with public policy to advance ocean health. Previously, she was NOPC's Program Director and helped to lead our coalition, campaigns, and projects to advance U.S. marine protected areas, including restoring protections for the Northeast Canyons & Seamounts and supporting the designation of the new Chumash Heritage National Marine Sanctuary. She received her M.A. in Conservation Biology from Columbia University in 2015, and has since worked to advance a variety of ocean conservation issues while working at the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the Society for Conservation Biology,  the Monterey Bay Aquarium, NOPC, and now Blue Spark Strategies. She lives in Monterey, California, and loves to hike, camp, and be outside, and she takes absolutely every chance she can get to visit a coral reef.