{"id":356778,"date":"2021-12-01T06:01:50","date_gmt":"2021-11-30T20:01:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=356778"},"modified":"2021-12-01T06:01:50","modified_gmt":"2021-11-30T20:01:50","slug":"angelo-villagomez-joins-caps-energy-and-environment-department","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/angelo-villagomez-joins-caps-energy-and-environment-department\/","title":{"rendered":"Angelo Villagomez joins CAP\u2019s Energy and Environment Department"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_356779\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-356779\" style=\"width: 960px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Angelo-Villagomez-mug.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-356779\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Angelo-Villagomez-mug-1024x531.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"960\" height=\"498\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-356779\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Angelo Villagomez<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>WASHINGTON, D.C.\u2014The Center for American Progress announced yesterday that\u00a0Angelo Villagomez\u00a0has joined the Energy and Environment Department as a senior fellow.<\/p>\n<p>At CAP, Villagomez will provide expertise in Indigenous-led conservation efforts and ocean conservation.<\/p>\n<p>Villagomez comes to the organization from The Pew Charitable Trusts, where he served as campaigns manager for the Blue Nature Alliance, a global partnership working to protect 30% of the ocean by 2030. He has written extensively about creating durable conservation outcomes by including Indigenous voices in the process.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cVillagomez is a powerful voice for the need to center Indigenous people\u2014who have millennia of experience and stand to be affected most by the climate and conservation crises\u2014in conservation policy,\u201d said Christy Goldfuss, senior vice president for Energy and Environment Policy at CAP. \u201cHe is also an expert in ocean conservation, with particular expertise in marine protected areas. He was central to the designation of the Mariana Trench Marine National Monument, among other accomplishments. We are excited for him to bring his experience and perspective to CAP\u2019s Conservation Policy team.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Villagomez has also worked for the League of Conservation Voters, the Smithsonian Institution, and the Mariana Islands Nature Alliance. He attained bachelor\u2019s degrees in biology from the University of Richmond and environmental policy from Rollins College. (PR)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON, D.C.\u2014The Center for American Progress announced yesterday that\u00a0Angelo Villagomez\u00a0has joined the Energy and Environment&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":356779,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[9503,1861],"class_list":["post-356778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","tag-angelo-villagomez","tag-cap"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356778","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=356778"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356778\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/356779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=356778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=356778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=356778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}