Earlier this year, Alliance for A Living Ocean’s former executive director Kyle Gronostajski took a job as the new environmental director at the Jetty Rock Foundation and recommended local Brittany McLaughlin as his successor at ALO. McLaughlin was hired this winter and has been stepping into the role, preparing for the summer ahead.

Alliance for a Living Ocean was formed in 1987 when New Jersey’s beaches were victims of the “Syringe Tide.”