Richard Moore
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Richard Moore is a key leader of the national environmental
justice movement with over 25 years of experience as a community activist and organizer.
Of Puerto Rican descent, Richard Moore has resided in New Mexico since 1965.
Richard has worked with a variety of community-based organizations around such
issues as welfare rights, police brutality, street gang activities, drug abuse,
low cost healthcare, child nutrition and the fight against racism, including the
struggle for environmental and economic justice. Richard was the founder and
Director of the Bobby Garcia Memorial Clinic in Albuquerque; a founding member
of the Southwest Organizing Project (SWOP); and a founding member of the
Southwest Network for Environmental and Economic Justice.
Richard is presently the coordinator of the Southwest Network,
a regional organization which comprises over 80 community based
grassroots organizations working in communities of color in six
southwestern states and Mexico..
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Richard's commitment to multi-racial
and multi-issue community organizing - and recognition of the interconnectedness
of local, regional, national and international issues - made him an important
member of the planning committee for the First National People of Color
Environmental Leadership Summit, which took place in October 1991.
Richard serves on the Environmental Support Center Board of Directors
and recently completed a three year term as the chair of the National
Environmental Justice Advisory Council to the EPA. In addition,
Richard played a significant role in establishing the Environmental
Justice Fund-a coalition of Environmental Justice Networks.
In recognition of his lifelong work, Richard was the recipient
of the 1991 Bannerman Award, the 1995 Albuquerque Human Rights
Award, and the 1997 Tides Foundation Jane Bagley Lehman Award for public policy.
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