Darryl Malek-Wiley
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Darryl Malek-Wiley is a veteran environmental activist based in Louisiana. Malek-Wiley has focused his career as an environmental activist on understanding and educating the public on the threats posed by toxins and industrial pollutants in air and water. He has been employed by the Sierra Club Environmental Justice Program since 2004. In recent years, his work has been centered around environmental rebuilding in New Orleans following Hurricane Katrina.[1]
Institute for Southern Studies Project Advisors
The following members served as Project Advisors at the Institute in December 2011:[2]
- Joe Atkins, Professor, University of Mississippi
- Julian Bond, Chair, NAACP
- Steve Bradberry, Lead Organizer, New Orleans ACORN
- Carlos Guerra, Columnist, San Antonio Express-News
- Pronita Gupta
- Bob Hall, Co-Director, Democracy North Carolina
- Jim Hightower, Author and radio host
- Naomi Klein, Syndicated columnist and author, No Logo
- Darryl Malek-Wiley, Louisiana Environmental Justice Organizer, Sierra Club
- Sangita Nayak, Policy/Communications Director, Praxis Project
- Angie Newsome, Reporter, Asheville Citizen-Times
- Tram Nguyen, Executive Editor, ColorLines
- William Quigley, Professor, Loyola University New Orleans Law School and Director, Poverty Law Clinic
- Lisa Seitz Gruwell, Political Director, Skyline Public Works