Our team of former regulators, policy experts and political leaders has over forty years of experience in government relations, stakeholder engagement, nonprofit organization management, coalition building, and public policy implementation that can guide you and your team to successfully accomplish your goals.
Our team has the ability to understand and translate complex regulatory and technical issues and communicate across multiple stakeholders to achieve goals and objectives. Our firm can move clients from problem statement to solution, including issue identification, development of an advocacy or public participation campaign, building partnerships, strategic communications and planning, and stakeholder engagement.
Finally, we bring value to any project by helping to consolidate the various regulatory, legislative, and stakeholder and public engagement processes that are often required for projects into a single process. 

Our Team

STACY McCORMACK

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Stacy is an experienced government affairs professional who thrives in complex political environments. With her political acumen, Stacy helps your team identify key stakeholders, which may include local elected officials, legislative targets, the Governor’s office, various agency and department staff, business organizations, and labor groups to advance public policy.

Stacy has extensive expertise in running political and issue-based campaigns using public opinion research and strategic message development to create a groundswell of support for candidate, regulatory, legislative, and ballot initiative campaigns. 

Stacy was most recently Director of Government Relations at The Nature Conservancy – NJ, the largest environmental organization in the world. Prior to that, Stacy was Director of Conservation Finance and Government Affairs with The Trust for Public Land, a national conservation group, where she secured millions in sustainable funding for parks and open space through local referendums in New Jersey, New York, and Pennsylvania. Stacy is a former environmental policy advisor to the NJ Department of Health, where she worked on childhood obesity prevention at the intersection of public health and the environment. Stacy is the founder of the statewide organization, Ag in the City, supporting urban agriculture and food access, now a program of Rutgers University’s Agriculture and Urban Programs. Stacy also served as Democratic Chair in Roseland, NJ.

Stacy holds a Bachelor’s degree from Seton Hall University and a Master’s degree in Environmental Policy Studies from New Jersey Institute of Technology.

DEBBIE MANS

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Debbie is a seasoned environmental policy maker and local elected official, with expertise in public participation, strategic communications, and community engagement.  She has extensive experience working on clean water, climate change, environmental justice and renewable energy issues. 

Prior to forming TWENTYTWENTY public affairs, she was the Deputy Commissioner at the NJ Department of Environmental Protection, responsible for providing strategic direction on the Department’s renewable energy, environmental justice, climate change and state planning initiatives, and representing the Department in public forums, press events and before various stakeholders.  She was also the Baykeeper and Executive Director of NY/NJ Baykeeper, a leading environmental non-profit organization protecting the NY Harbor Estuary.  Prior to her work at Baykeeper, Debbie was the Environmental & Policy Advisor for NJ Governor Jon S. Corzine

She is the former chair of the New Jersey League of Conservation Voters, former Treasurer for the New Jersey League of Conservation Voters Education Fund, former trustee of New Jersey Future and currently serves as the Mayor of the Borough in Glen Ridge, NJ.

Debbie has certifications from the International Association for Public Participation in Foundations in Public Participation and the University of Michigan Alumni M-Pact DEI Program. She holds a Bachelor’s degree from the University of Michigan (where she was a member of a multiple Big Ten Champion Track & Field team) and a J.D. from Vermont Law School.

COLLABORATORS

Helen Henderson

Helen Henderson is the Principal of Current Strategies, LLC, where she applies decades of experience gained from working in the non-profit sector on a wide range of issues, including project development + management, business administration, strategic messaging, + stakeholder engagement.  Helen brings deep relationships across federal, state + local government in South New Jersey + the Mid-Atlantic region to any project.  She specializes in the development + implementation of coastal resiliency + green infrastructure projects for both water quality + flooding improvements, shoreline protection measures, native vegetation initiatives + regional ocean planning.

Elizabeth Schuster

Elizabeth Schuster is an environmental economist + the Founder of Sustainable Economies Consulting, where she brings over 20 years of experience in community economic development. Elizabeth has produced a mix of peer-reviewed publications, numerous reports + a series of outreach materials + pop-science blogs to communicate with diverse audiences. Her facilitation experience is diverse, ranging from facilitating focus groups with farmers in Venezuela, Honduras + Mexico to running workshops, meetings + strategic planning efforts in the United States. Most recently Elizabeth spent five years as an economist with The Nature Conservancy. Elizabeth is fluent in Spanish.

Matt Krayton

Matt is the Founder of Publitics, where he serves as a trusted advisor to clients in the private and public sector through delivering goals-driven communications and media strategies. Matt has consulted on campaigns at the local, state + federal levels. He is currently an adjunct professor at Centenary University's business department, teaching in their first-of-its-kind social media program. Prior to founding Publitics, Matt worked at Fairleigh Dickinson University’s PublicMind Poll and taught a Freshman seminar for political science students + in the Law in the Liberal Arts program as an adjunct instructor.