Meet Collin
A new generation of leadership
Collin and his wife Krish are proud public school parents, who are raising their family in Bear, near Lums Pond. Collin is a "girl dad," who coaches his daughters' youth basketball and soccer teams and is active in their schools and dance programs. If elected, Collin would be the first Governor in decades with kids in traditional public schools while in office.
Proven progressive change-maker
As Secretary of Natural Resources and Environmental Control from 2009-2014 under Governor Jack Markell, Collin led one of the most active periods in the 50-year history of DNREC, achieving reductions in air pollution that led the nation, enacting statewide recycling, bolstering climate resilience, building clean energy, and expanding public trails, parks, and wildlife refuges. He was the youngest cabinet secretary in the nation when he was appointed in 2009 at the age of 29.
A national leader who delivers for Delaware
As CEO of the National Wildlife Federation*, America's largest grassroots conservation organization with 7 million members, Collin played a critical role in helping pass the Inflation Reduction Act, the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, the Great American Outdoors Act, and the Delaware River Basin Conservation Act. He has helped secure hundreds of millions of dollars for Delaware to advance environmental justice, natural resource restoration, clean water, community resilience, and clean energy investments, including the recently announced Mid-Atlantic Clean Hydrogen Hub that will create thousands of union jobs in Delaware.
Active in the community.
Collin has partnered with communities and local environmental justice leaders all across the state - from Ellendale, Dover, Lewes, and Seaford to New Castle, Newark, South Wilmington, and Claymont - to help advance locally-led projects that achieve environmental justice, secure clean water infrastructure, create new parks and open space, boost community resilience to flooding and extreme weather, restore degraded natural resources, and adopt clean energy.
Leadership skills and experience to deliver
In addition to his environmental leadership and management of large organizations, Collin brings expertise in economic development (Economic Development Officer and Clean Tech Strategist for the City of San José, CA) and financial management (former Assistant Budget Director for the City of Syracuse, NY). Collin graduated from Dartmouth College and Oxford University as a Marshall Scholar, before serving as a University Fellow at the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs. He also taught as an adjunct professor on climate change and environmental justice at the University of Delaware.
About Krish (Collin married way up...)
A Sri Lankan immigrant whose parents fled a civil war when she was nine months old, Krish currently leads one of the nation’s largest immigration nonprofit organizations, Global Refuge (formerly the Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service), where she has helped tens of thousands of refugees from around the world. She previously served as Policy Director for First Lady Michelle Obama and as a senior advisor at the State Department under Secretaries Hillary Clinton and John Kerry.