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The Connecticut Light & Power Company, a subsidiary of Northeast Utilities, has named Naomi Walker as the lead program administrator of the Connecticut Energy Efficiency Fund’s new Business Sustainability Challenge. In this new role, Walker is using her experience in energy efficiency education, training and marketing, to introduce progressive sustainability education to area businesses. She is recruiting both local and national sustainability experts to develop an educational curriculum of courses designed to help businesses reduce their carbon footprint by managing their energy use, water use, waste stream, and transportation.
Alison A. Considine, M.D., M.P.H., of Cheshire, has joined the medical and dental staff of Saint Francis Hospital and Medical Center. Considine received her medical degree from the University of Connecticut School of Medicine. She served as an intern in medicine at the Hospital of Saint Raphael; a resident in anesthesiology at Yale-New Haven Hospital; and a fellow in pediatric anesthesiology at Yale-New Haven Children’s Hospital. Considine also holds a master’s degree in public health from the Yale University School of Public Health.
Wendy Kennedy Venoit, a partner in Pepe & Hazard’s Hartford office, is the executive editor for a new ABA Book entitled: “International Construction Litigation: A Guide for Cross-Border Transactions and Legal Disputes.” Venoit is an construction litigator having handled numerous domestic and international construction arbitrations. Venoit was also recently named Treasurer of the Lawyers Collaborative for Diversity.
HARC Inc. announced that Andrea Barton Reeves has joined the organization as vice president of administration. Barton Reeves has considerable experience in the area of administration and the law. She has practiced in the areas of civil litigation and insurance defense in major law firms in New York and Connecticut for the past five years. She has represented abused and neglected children in a variety of courts in Connecticut and was also a staff attorney with Lawyers for Children America, where she taught other attorneys to represent children pro bono in child protection matters.
