Experience

WashPIRG

• Public Policy Offices
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Board Of Directors

  • Sep 2017 - Present



Environment Washington

• Political Organizations
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Executive Director

  • Jan 2016 - Present



WashPIRG

• Public Policy Offices
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Executive Director

  • Mar 2015 - Jul 2017

  Bruce Speight is the Washington State Director for the Public Interest Network, directing and overseeing both WashPIRG and Environment Washington's state and federal program work. Current priorities include campaigns to protect Washington waterways from pollution, get Washington State to 'Go Solar,' protect public health from antibiotic overuse, get big money out of politics, and protect consumers in the marketplace.Bruce started his work with PIRG organizing college students in Massachusetts and Wisconsin. From 2001-2004, Bruce was the program director of Massachusetts Community Water Watch, an Americorps program focused on community education and service to protect and restore Massachusetts’ rivers, lakes and streams.In the summer of 2004, Bruce returned to Wisconsin to direct the Wisconsin New Voters Project, the state’s largest non-partisan, grassroots youth voter registration and mobilization campaign, registering over 150,000 young voters in the 2004 election. After the election, Bruce was the Field Director for WISPIRG, running field campaigns to pass clean energy legislation, preserve Wisconsin’s lakes and to protect consumers, including identity theft and privacy legislation.Bruce has been an Executive Director since 2007.



WISPIRG

• Director

  • Nov 2007 - Mar 2015

  From 2008 to 2014, Bruce was the Director of WISPIRG (Wisconsin PIRG). He developed WISPIRG’s toxics, consumer, tax and budget, and transportation programs. Bruce helped to draft and pass Wisconsin’s BPA Free Kids Act, which bans the toxic chemical BPA in baby bottles and sippy cups. Bruce worked with a statewide coalition to pass Wisconsin’s smokefree air law and has run campaigns to make the state budget transparent and online, and to modernize Wisconsin's transportation system. Bruce has authored numerous reports to inform Wisconsin’s state transportation budget, including Building Boondoggles; Highway Boom, Budget Bust; Road Overkill and most recently; Driving Wisconsin’s Brain Drain?.

• Field Director

  • Nov 2004 - Nov 2007

  In the summer of 2004, Bruce returned to Wisconsin to direct the Wisconsin New Voters Project, the state’s largest non-partisan, grassroots youth voter registration and mobilization campaign, registering over 150,000 young voters in the 2004 election. After the election, Bruce was the Field Director for WISPIRG, running field campaigns to pass clean energy legislation, preserve Wisconsin’s lakes and to protect consumers, including identity theft and privacy legislation.

• New Voters Project Wisconsin State Director

  • Jun 2004 - Nov 2004



MASSPIRG

• MA Community Water Watch Program Director

  • Aug 2001 - Jun 2004



Fund for the Public Interest

• Canvass Director

  • 1998 - 2001