{"id":36,"date":"2020-02-26T21:13:56","date_gmt":"2020-02-26T21:13:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/njdep.kesz1dev.com\/eo\/?page_id=36"},"modified":"2023-02-13T15:52:27","modified_gmt":"2023-02-13T20:52:27","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/deptest.nj.gov\/legislative\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet the Team"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Bryana De Veaux<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Director of Legislative Affairs<\/h3>\n

\"Bryana<\/p>\n

As director of the Office of Legislative Affairs (OLA), Bryana leads, coaches, and develops OLA. Bryana leads DEP\u2019s legislative team in responding to pending legislation and oversees management of intergovernmental relations with the legislature and Congressional delegation as well as being the principal advisor to the Commissioner and Deputy Chief Advisor of DEP.\u00a0 Bryana is the Liaison to the Governor\u2019s Office, Legislative Affairs, IGA, and Counsel\u2019s Office (on bills) in conjunction with the Deputy Chief Advisor. She drives the DEP\u2019s affirmative legislative agenda, assist the Deputy Chief of Staff and senior team on messaging support and delivery around DEP policy priorities.\u00a0 She also serves as a point of contact for lobbyist, regulated community, advocates.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/3″][vc_column_text el_class=”my-2″]<\/p>\n

Nathalie Verhaegen<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Special Advisor<\/h3>\n

\"Nathalie<\/p>\n

As Special Advisor of the Office of Legislative Affairs, Nathalie serves as the legal advisor to OLA. She coordinates with Department programs to obtain program comments on legislation and compile, edit, conduct further legal and policy research, and transmit to internal management and to outside parties as directed. Nathalie performs research on legislation, regulations, and policies of federal, state, and local connection with the Department. Nathalie also serves as legal advisor, conduct legal, legislative, regulatory and policy research.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/3″][vc_column_text el_class=”my-2″]<\/p>\n

Nateshea M. Fenderson<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Executive Assistant<\/h3>\n

\"Nateshea<\/p>\n

As Executive Assistant for the director of the Office of Legislative Affairs, Nateshea handles special projects and assignments. She assists the director with managing constituent issues with the legislative district offices including follow-up and correspondence, maintaining the constituent tracker, assisting the director with referrals from the Commissioner\u2019s Office. Nateshea is also responsible for office management.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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