Interview with Wenonah Hauter, Executive Director of Food &#; Water Watch
By Alexina Cather
Wenonah Hauter is the Executive Director of Food & Water Watch, a Washington, D.C.-based group committed to ensuring a safe, accessible, and sustainable food and water supply. She has worked extensively on legislative and grassroots strategies to improve food, water, energy and environmental issues at the national, state and local level.
An accomplished organizer dedicated to policy change, Hauter was a Senior Organizer for the Union of Concerned Scientists, the Environmental Policy Director for Citizen Action, and the Director of Public Citizen, Energy and Environment Program. She is also the author of Frackopoly: The Battle for the Future of Energy and the Environmentand Foodopoly: The Battle Over the Future of Food and Farming in America. She has a M.S. in Applied Anthropology from the University of Maryland.
I was able to do an email interview with her about food and energy policy and her work with Food & Water Watch.
New York City Food Policy Center (FPC): What inspired you to become a food and energy advocate? You have an academic background as an anthropolo
Founder and Executive Director
Wenonah Hauter is the founder and executive director of Food & Water Watch and Food & Water Action and serves on the board of each. Wenonah has three decades of experience campaigning and writing on food, water, energy and environmental issues. She has trained and mentored hundreds of organizers and activists across the country and worked at the national, state and local levels to develop policy positions and legislative and field strategies to secure real wins for communities and the environment. Read more.
Board of Directors
Craig Merrilees
Craig Merrilees has worked on diverse campaigns for labor, environmental and human rights organizations during the past four decades. He currently serves as Communications Director for the International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU). Read more.
Adolph Reed
Adolph Reed, Jr. recently retired after four decades as a political science professor. He has held faculty appointments at Howard, Yale, and Northwestern universities, the University of Illinois at Chicago, the New School for Social Research, and, since , at the University of Pennsylvania. He is author of four scholarly and popu
Wenonah Hauter
Wenonah Hauter is the founder and executive director of Food & Water Watch and Food & Water Action and serves on the board of each. Wenonah has three decades of experience campaigning and writing on food, water, energy and environmental issues. She has trained and mentored hundreds of organizers and activists across the country and worked at the national, state and local levels to develop policy positions and legislative and field strategies to secure real wins for communities and the environment.
From to she served as Director of Public Citizen’s Energy and Environment Program, which focused on water, food and energy policy. From to , she was environmental policy director for Citizen Action, where she worked with the organization’s 30 state-based groups. From to she was at the Union of Concerned Scientists where, as a senior organizer, she coordinated broad-based, grassroots sustainable energy campaigns in several states.
Her book Frackopoly: The Battle for the Future of Energy and the Environment () exposes how more than years of political influence peddling facilitated the control of our energy system by a handful of corporations and
Wenonah Hauter
Wenonah Hauter is the Executive Director of Food & Water Watch. She has worked extensively on water, food, energy and environmental issues at the international, national, state and local level. She is a leader in the campaign against the privatization of the water commons and has been involved in many successful campaigns in the U.S and Global South. Experienced in developing policy positions and legislative strategies, she is also a skilled and accomplished organizer, having lobbied and developed grassroots field strategy and action plans. From to she served as Director of Public Citizen Energy and Environment Program, which focused on water, food, and energy policy. From to , she was environmental policy director for Citizen Action, where she worked with the organization’s 30 state-based groups. From to she was at the Union of Concerned Scientists where as a senior organizer, she coordinated broad-based, grassroots sustainable energy campaigns in several states. She has an M.S. in Applied Anthropology from the University of Maryland. She lives on an organic farm in Virginia.
From Food and Water Watch, United States [1]
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