Roxanne Lawson is an International Policy Campaigner for
Friends of the Earth-US. At Friends of the Earth, Roxanne works to
promote community rights related to natural resources and the
environment on the African continent, with a particular emphasis on the
impacts of international financial institutions and multinational
companies.
Prior to her work at Friends of the Earth-US Ms. Lawson worked for the
American Friends Service Committee as the National Liaison to United
for Peace and Justice, Stop the FTAA Coalition and AFSC's Life Over
Debt Campaign aim at cancelling the illegitimate debt of African
nations. She is a founding member of Black Voices for Peace, BEATS for
PEACE, Anonymous No More, and United for Peace and Justice. She is a
former President of the W. Montague Cobb Anthropological Society as
well as a member of SUSTAIN, the American Anthropological Association,
INCITE, the Society of Historical Archaeologists, and Alpha Kappa Alpha
Sorority, Inc. She serves on the board of the Africa International
Youth Network, the UZIMA Africa Foundation of Nairobi Kenya, Black Lily
Film and Music Festival and the 50 Years is Enough Network.
She is a former featured Columnist focusing on Womanist Issues for the
Hilltop and has written for Blu, Planet, and Peaceworks magazine. She
has also contributed to CorpWatch.com and TomPaine.com and YRB, an
underground magazine on culture, music, street fashion and hip-hop; as
well as various other periodicals devoted to politics and political
thinking.
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Roxanne Lawson
Pillar III Chair
Friends of the Earth
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