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Peggy Shepard

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Peggy Shepard is co-founder and executive director of the not-for-profit WE ACT for Environmental Justice in New York in the USA. She has been involved with organizing environmental protection campaigns in and around New York since the 1980s, and also works on many social action committees. Shepard holds a National Order of Merit from France and gave a TED talk in 2022.

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