Carmelo Ruiz-Marrero

Carmelo Ruiz-Marrero was the founder of the Puerto Rico Project on Biosafety and author of Transgenic Ballad: Biotechnology, Globalization and the Clash of Paradigms, a book about the challenges of biotechnology and globalization. He was also a senior fellow at the Oakland Institute and a research associate at the Institute for Social Ecology. Carmelo wrote freelance stories for the New York Daily News, Interpress Service, Native Americas Journal, IRC Americas Program, Corporate Watch, Alternet, Grist, E Magazine and Earth Island Journal. He also hosted educational radio and television shows in Vermont and Puerto Rico.