Kory Johnson

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Kory Johnson
NationalityAmerican
Known forGrassroots environmental activism
Awards Goldman Environmental Prize (1998)

Kory Johnson is an American environmentalist from Arizona.

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 and helped organize protests against trainloads of DDT-contaminated dirt into Arizona. [1]

She was awarded the Goldman Environmental Prize in 1998, [2] for her efforts against toxic and nuclear contamination.

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References

  1. Women's Studies Quarterly, Spring/Summer 2001, p. 144.
  2. "Kory Johnson". goldmanprize.org. Archived from the original on March 6, 2012. Retrieved November 27, 2007.