Peggy Shepard

Environmental justice leader
weact.org
Peggy Shepard works to ensure the right to a clean, healthy and sustainable environment extends to all.

Why you should listen

Peggy Shepard is cofounder and executive director of WE ACT for Environmental Justice, based in New York. She has a long and successful history of combining grassroots organizing, environmental advocacy and community-based participatory research to ensure that the right to a clean, healthy and sustainable environment extends to all. She has been named co-chair of the White House Environmental Justice Advisory Council.

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