Philip Klasky

Philip Klasky

Alum 1998

Philip M. Klasky lectures in the Department of American Indian Studies on issues of law, environmental justice, human rights, de-colonization, media literacy, cultural preservation and ethnography. He is also an environmental justice activist working to protect endangered lands and cultures, wilderness, endangered species and human rights. He was involved with the fifteen-year successful campaign to stop the proposal for a radioactive waste dump at Ward Valley, and is co-founder of the Bay Area Nuclear Waste Coalition.

Philip has advocated for changes in local and national policy regarding nuclear power, nuclear waste management, nuclear weapons proliferation, energy policy and the management of our public lands. He was appointed by former California governor Gray Davis to serve on the Atkinson Commission to advise the state on radioactive waste management and was responsible for the passage of the 2002 California Radioactive Waste Control Act. He has also served as an international observer and human rights advocate in Brazil, Nicaragua, Honduras and El Salvador.

Philip has served on the boards of the Agape Foundation for Nonviolent Social Change, the Institute for Deep Ecology and the Escalante Wilderness Coalition, and is a member of the Alliance for Responsible Recreation and the Sierra Club California/Nevada Desert Committee. In 2009, he was awarded the Anthony Grassroots Prize from the Rose Foundation for Communities and the Environment.

Read more about Philip and his work at http://www.philipmklasky.com.