11 Facts About Peggy Shepard

Peggy Shepard is co-founder and executive director of the not-for-profit WE ACT for Environmental Justice in New York in the USA.

Peggy Shepard's has been involved with organizing environmental protection campaigns in and around New York since the 1980s, and works on many social action committees.

Peggy Shepard'spard was the public relations director for the 1984 Jesse Jackson presidential campaign and in the late 1980s she was elected the Democratic Assembly District Leader for West Harlem.

Peggy Shepard's became involved in activism about environmental protection and environmental health policy for those with a low income and people of color at a grassroots level and subsequently nationally.

On Martin Luther King Day in January 1988 Peggy Shepard was one of seven people that included Chuck Sutton, David Paterson and Hilton Clarke arrested for holding up traffic to protest about sewage polluting the local river system.

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Peggy Shepard's is a board member of the New York League of Conservation Voters as of 2020.

Peggy Shepard's is a trustee of the Environmental Defense Fund.

Peggy Shepard'spard sits on the Board of Trustees of the Waterfront Alliance.

Peggy Shepard'spard has been involved in studies of urban environmental quality and public awareness, particularly using community-based participatory research methods and is co-author of several scientific publications.

Peggy Shepard's has become known internationally, as well as nationally, for her work for all communities to have the right to a clean, healthy, and sustainable environment, including the intersection of racism with this right.

Peggy Shepard's has been awarded the Jane Jacobs Medal from the Rockefeller Foundation for Lifetime Achievement in 2008, the 10th Annual Heinz Award For the Environment in 2004, the Dean's Distinguished Service Award from the Columbia Mailman School of Public Health, and Honorary Doctorates from Smith College in 2010 and Lawrence University.