Dr. Daniel R. Faber Director Northeastern Environmental Justice Research Collaborative Department of Sociology and Anthropology 500 Holmes Hall – Northeastern University

Dr. Faber is Director of the Northeastern Environmental Justice Research Collaborative. A longtime environmental justice advocate, researcher, and scholar, he co-founded the Environmental Project On Central America (EPOCA) in 1984. Based with Earth Island Institute in San Francisco, and the Environmental Policy Institute in Washington, D.C., EPOCA worked to broaden and deepen the movement for peace, social justice, and sustainable development by addressing the human and ecological impacts of U.S. policy in the region, and involved U.S. environmentalists in efforts to change that policy.

During his tenure as Research Director (1984- 90), EPOCA organized a regional network of Central American environmentalists (REDES) for the purpose of coordinating research efforts and policy proposals; organized regional and international environmental justice conferences, such as the 1989 Congress on the Fate and Hope of the Earth held in Managua, which included over 1,200 participants from over 70 nations; and organized international support for a number of popular-led “leader” environmental justice projects and programs throughout the region, including Campesino to Campesino in Nicaragua.

Dr. Faber is the author of numerous publications on environmental injustice. His book on Central America’s ecological crisis, Environment Under Fire, is one of four works recognized by Choice Magazine as an “1993 Outstanding Academic Book of the Year on Latin America.”

His latest books are the edited collections, The Struggle for Ecological Democracy: Environmental Justice Movements in the United States (1998), and Foundations for Social Change: Critical Perspectives on Philanthropy and Popular Movements. Dr. Faber is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, and a faculty member of the Latino, Latin American and Caribbean Studies (LLACS) and Environmental Studies Programs at Northeastern University. Dr. Faber has also served as a consultant to many environmental organizations and foundations. He has recently completed a major study with Dr. Eric Krieg entitled, Unequal Exposure to Ecological Hazards 2005: Environmental Injustices in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

Another recent report by Dr. Faber and Deborah McCarthy, Green of Another Color: Building Effective Partnerships Between Foundations and the Environmental Justice Movement, makes a series of recommendations to foundations for improving their grantmaking practices with respect to the U.S. environmental justice movement.

Dr. Faber is a Board Member of the Alliance for a Healthy Tomorrow (AHT), a broad-based coalition of citizens, scientists, health professionals, union officials, business leaders, and environmentalists working to implement a precautionary and preventive approach to environmental policy in Massachusetts. He is also the author of Capitalizing on Environmental Injustice: The Polluter-Industrial Complex in the Age of Globalization (Rowman & Littlefied, 2008).

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