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Peter
Barnes BA MA — Senior Fellow, Tomales Bay
Institute, Point Reyes, CA, socially responsible
entrepreneur, founder Working Assets.
Peter Barnes is a senior fellow at the
Tomales Bay Institute and author of the new book, Capitalism 3.0:
A Guide to Reclaiming the Commons. He
co-founded Working Assets Long Distance and several other socially
responsible businesses. He is also a former
journalist who has written for Newsweek, The New Republic, The New York
Times and many other publications.
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Tyler
J. Curiel MD MPH — Director, University of Texas Health
Sciences Center at San
Antonio Cancer Institute, University of Texas (previously at Tulane
University during hurricane Katrina.)
Read about the
multifaceted Tyler Curiel.
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Rich Dana — Independent
cultural engineer and consultant for Union of Concerned Scientists.
Rich's primary
consulting work focuses on renewable energy and sustainable agriculture
issues, including educational outreach, project implementation and
management. Biosketch and articles
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Curt
H. Drennen PsyD
RN — Mental Health
Disaster
Response Coordinator and Planner, Colorado Department of Human
Services,
Division of Mental Health.
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Ed
Fallon BA — Former state representative, community
organizer, and
Founder, Independence Movement for Iowa ("I'm for Iowa").
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Donald
Goldberg JD — Senior Advisor
on Climate Change to th Center for
International Environmental Law (CIEL), Washington DC.
Mr. Goldberg assisted the
Inuit Circumpolar Conference to bring a global warming-based human
rights lawsuit against the United States. He teaches a course on
Climate Change and Emissions Trading Law at the Washington College of
Law.
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William
Hartung BA — Director, Director, Arms and Security
Initiative at the New America
Foundation, Washington, DC
Author of How Much Are You Making
On The War Daddy? and
Weapons for All.
Biosketch
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David C. Hall MD — Past president
of PSR (1997) and Past President of the Washington PSR Chapter (1992-3
& 2003-4)
Dr. Hall is a child and adolescent
psychiatrist in Seattle, WA and PSR board member since 1991.
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Lynn
Heuss — An
Independence Movement for Iowa (I'm
for Iowa)
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Andrea
M. Hricko MPH — Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck
College of
Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles.
Clinical Director of Community Outreach and Education.
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Andrew L. Jameton PhD
— University of
Nebraska College of Public Health, and Greater Omaha PSR.
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Fred
Kirschenmann PhD — Distinguished Fellow, Leopold Center,
Iowa State
University, Ames, IA. Author of numerous articles and book
chapters dealing with ethics and agriculture.
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Michael
Klare PhD — Five College
Professor and Director, Program of Peace And World Security Studies
(PAWSS), Hampshire College,
Amherst, MA.
Author of Blood and Oil
and Resource Wars.
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Arjun
Makhijani PhD — President, Institute for
Energy & Environmental Research, Tacoma Park MD.
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Michael
McGeehin PhD
MSPH — Director, Division
Environmental Hazards & Health Effects, National Center
for
Environmental Health, U.S. Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention (CDC) and Adjunct Professor, Emory University
School of Public Health..
Dr. McGeehin has been a
scientist with the CDC for over
28 years and has spent most of that time working on environmental
health issues including lead poisoning in children, asthma, drinking
water contamination, air pollution, radiation exposures, environmental
health tracking, cancer clusters, and morbidity and mortality related
to heat waves, hypothermia, and extreme weather events. Dr.
McGeehin also served as co-chair of the Human Health Sector for the
U.S. National Assessment Team, responsible for assessing the possible
human health effects on the U.S. population resulting from global
climate change.
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Bruce
Nilles JD — Senior Midwest
Representative for the Sierra Club and Director, Midwest Clean Energy
Campaign.
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Denise
Obrien — Organic farmer
and founder, Women and Agriculture Network.
An organic farmer for
thirty years, Ms Obrien ran for Sec of Agriculture in Iowa in
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Richard
Pirog MS — Associate Director, Leopold Center,
Iowa State University and Leader of Marketing and Food Systems
Initiative.
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Carolyn
Raffensperger
MA JD — Executive Director, Science and
Environmental Health Network (SEHN).
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Ira
Shorr — Field Director, Physicians
for Social Responsibility, Washington DC.
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Victor
Sidel MD — Distinguished
University Professor of Social
Medicine, Montefiore Medical Center and Albert Einstein College of
Medicine, Bronx, NY
Co-founder
and past-co-president of the Nobel Peace Prize-winning International Physicians
for the Prevention of Nuclear War, and co-founder and past
president of Physicians for
Social Responsibility. Dr. Sidel is a leader globally in
combining a life in medicine with action on social concerns and issues
of
war and peace. He is co-editor of the book, War and Public
Health, published
by Oxford University Press; an all-new up-to-date paperback second
edition,
available from Oxford October 2007.
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Douglas Taylor PhD — International
Science Coordinator
Wetlands International and Secretary, Scientific and Technical Advisory
Panel (STAP), United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP) |
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Catherine
Thomasson MD — President, Physicians
for
Social Responsibility, Portland, OR.
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Ravi
Vadlamudi MD MPH — Clinical
Assistant Professor, Department of Family and Community Medicine,
Tulane
School of Medicine, New Orleans and Medical Director of the Common Ground Health Clinic in New Orleans.
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Kirsten
Beyer MPH — Graduate
student and PhD candidate at the University of Iowa College of Public
Health.
Kirsten Beyer has been active in gun
violence issues and in PSR.
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Matt
Bulle — Manager, Toyota of Iowa
City.
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Michael
Carberry — Chair
of the
Iowa
City Area Group of the Iowa
Chapter, Sierra Club.
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Jonathan
C. Carlson JD —
Professor
of Law and Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, University of Iowa
College of Law.
Professor
Carlson's scholarship focuses on topics in international environmental
law
and international trade law.
Univ of
Iowa Biosketch
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David Drake — Iowa PSR Board
Member.
Dr. Drake is a Clinical Associate
Professor of Psychiatry at Des Moines University and has a solo family
psychiatry private practice in Des Moines. He is also active with
the American Friends Service Committee.
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Marc
Franke — Iowa Renewable
Energy
Association (I-RENEW)
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Katy
Hansen — Co-Director of
Iowa United Nations Association.
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Dan Holub JD —
Director, University of Iowa Labor
Center.
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Kate
Karacay — Co-Director of
Iowa United Nations Association.
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Mark
Kresowik BA — Organizer for Community Energy
Solutions and the Iowa
Sierra Club. Former University of Iowa Student Government
President.
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James
Merchant MD DrPH — Dean, University of Iowa College of
Public
Health.
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Maureen
McCue MD PhD — Conference
Director, Coordinator of the Iowa
Chapter, Physicians for Social
Responsibility, and Co-Regional Director National PSR (Midwest
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Fred
Myer MA — Board of
Directors, Iowa Environmental
Advocates.
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John
W. Rachow PhD MD — Conference
Co-Director and Co-Regional
Director National PSR (Midwest Region).
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Rachel Sandler — Medical
Student University of Iowa.
Ms. Sandler is active in the American
Medical Student Association (AMSA) and the Medical Alliance to Stop
Global Warming, a joint program between AMSA and Student PSR.
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Jerry
Schnoor PhD — Director, University of Iowa Center for
Global and
Regional Environmental Research.
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Robert
Schultes
— Iowa PSR Board
Member.
Dr. Schultes practices family medicine
at Mercy Care in Cedar Rapids. He is also a member of Women for
Peace.
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Gerald
Sorokin — Executive Director, Hillel
Jewish
Student Center,
University of Iowa.
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Rajeev
Vibhakar PhD MD — University of Iowa College of
Medicine, Department of Pediatrics.
Dr. Vibhakar s a member of the Iowa PSR Chapter and serves as liaison
and mentor to Student PSR at Iowa.
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Reverend
Ben Webb — Cool Congregations.
Rev. Benjamin
Webb is Rector of
St. Luke’s Episcopal Church in Cedar Falls where "Cool
Congregations" was launched, and is the co-founder of The Regeneration
Project in San
Francisco,
home of the national Interfaith Power and Light
movement. He is the author of Fugitive
Faith, a book of interviews with national leaders on the need for
spiritual,
environmental and community renewal, and has been a frequent conference
organizer on subjects at the intersection of faith, agriculture,
energy,
environment and human health.
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Sarah Webb — Cool Congregations.
Sarah Webb and two other mothers created Cool
Congregations,
a national program initiative of The Regeneration Project and Iowa
Interfaith
Power and Light that solves global warming one family at a time in
Christian,
Jewish and Muslim congregations. She is
an artist and activist who also helped organize Yards For Kids, a
neighborhood
toxics reduction program, and was the book editor for Fugitive Faith:
Conversations on Spiritual, Environmental and Community Renewal.
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Burns
H. Weston LLB
JSD — University of Iowa Center for Human
Rights.
In 1999, Professor Weston
helped to found and thereafter directed, for five years, The University of Iowa Center for Human
Rights (UICHR). Upon his resignation from that position on December
31, 2004, he was named lifetime Senior Scholar of the UI Center for
Human Rights.
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Geoff
Wilming — Quality Care, The Nature
Care Company, Iowa City.
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