Kory Johnson is an American environmentalist from
Arizona
Arizona is a U.S. state, state in the Southwestern United States, Southwestern region of the United States, sharing the Four Corners region of the western United States with Colorado, New Mexico, and Utah. It also borders Nevada to the nort ...
.
In 1991, while still a young girl, Johnson led a successful effort by
Children for a Safe Environment to stop a hazardous waste dump being built in her local area. In 1996 she joined
Greenpeace
Greenpeace is an independent global campaigning network, founded in Canada in 1971 by a group of Environmental movement, environmental activists. Greenpeace states its goal is to "ensure the ability of the Earth to nurture life in all its biod ...
and helped organize protests against trainloads of
DDT
Dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane, commonly known as DDT, is a colorless, tasteless, and almost odorless crystalline chemical compound, an organochloride. Originally developed as an insecticide, it became infamous for its environmental impacts. ...
-contaminated dirt into Arizona.
Women's Studies Quarterly, Spring/Summer 2001
p. 144.
She was awarded the Goldman Environmental Prize
The Goldman Environmental Prize is a prize awarded annually to grassroots environmental activists.
History
Awardees are named from each of the world's six geographic regions: Africa, Asia, Europe, Islands and Island Nations, North America, an ...
in 1998, for her efforts against toxic and nuclear contamination
Radioactive contamination, also called radiological pollution, is the deposition of, or presence of radioactive substances on surfaces or within solids, liquids, or gases (including the human body), where their presence is unintended or undesira ...
.
References
American environmentalists
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Goldman Environmental Prize awardees
Activists from Arizona
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