Wednesday, March 7, 2007

Waterways Conference Speakers Brief Biographies

Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr., son of former US president Robert F Kennedy, is an environmental lawyer and the co-host of Ring of Fire on the Air America Radio network. After doing community service with the Riverkeeper organization in 1984, he became the group's chief prosecuting attorney. He currently serves as the president of the Water Keeper Alliance which, according to wikipedia.org, " [is] the fastest growing grassroots environmental movement in the world." In 1998 Kennedy and two other men, Chris Bartle and John Hoving, created Tear of Clouds LLC., a water bottling company that donates all profits to the Waterkeeper Alliance. He is currently married to Mary Richardson and has six children.

Sources for this biography are:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waterkeeper_Alliance
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_F._Kennedy,_Jr.
http://www.activistcash.com/biography.cfm/bid/2765

Kelley Alley

Kelley Alley is an associate professor and director of the anthropology program at Auburn University. Alley has done research in northern India for over ten years and has been the overseer of a project that was concerned with alleviating the problem of river pollution in India. She is also the author of the book Banks of the Ganga: When Wastewater Meets a Sacred River, which is an ethnographic study that discusses issues concerning water and the Ganga, which is considered by the people of India to be sacred. She has also been the author of many other works that discuss water and the environment.


Sources for this biography are:
http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=12072
http://www.auburn.edu/academic/liberal_arts/sociology/bios/alley.htm

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