Dr. Helen Caldicott
Activist & Author

The world's leading spokesperson for the antinuclear movement, Dr. Helen Caldicott is the founder of the Nobel Prize winning Physicians for Social Responsibility, and herself a nominee for the Nobel Peace Prize. Both the Smithsonian Institute and Ladies Home Journal named her one of the most Influential Women of the Twentieth Century, and she has honorary degrees from nineteen universities. She divides her time between Australia and the United States, where she has devoted the last thirty years to an international campaign to educate the public about the medical hazards of the nuclear age.

Sabra Field
Artist

Woodcut artist, designer of UNICEF card & U.S. postal stamp

A fine arts major at Middlebury College, Sabra Field is now a printmaker and, with her husband, Spencer, runs the Tontine Press in East Barnard, Vermont. She received her master's degree in art teaching from Wesleyan in 1959 and taught in Connecticut for several years before returning to Vermont. Her work has appeared in galleries all over the world, and in more than three dozen solo exhibitions. She has been honored with grants from the Vermont Council on the Arts and her works have won prizes in regional and national competitions. She has had prints included in the UNICEF Christmas card series and one of them, "Apple Tree Winter," was all-time best seller. Ms. Field has done commissions of landscape designs for hot-air balloons but she is often best known as the designer of the 1991 Vermont Bicentennial stamp.

Please visit www.sabrafield.com for more beautiful woodcuts and silkscreen images. Photo of Sabra adapted from Middlebury Magazine, Winter 1985 pg. 7 and Middlebury Magazine, Spring 1995 pgs. 16-19. Original woodcut of Clotheslines was 10.5" x 5".

Barbara James
Teacher & Organizer

Barbara James is the retired Director of Student activities at Phillips Exeter Academy in New Hampshire. Barbara was active in the civil rights and peace movements. She is a former member of the Clamshell Alliance and long-time anti-nuclear activist. She and her husband, Buddy, split their time between Conifer, CO, and Newmarket, NH.

Bill McKibben
Writer

Currently a freelance writer and environmentalist, McKibben was a staff writer at The New Yorker magazine from 1982-87, where he wrote several hundred articles for the magazine, including Talk of the Town stories, humorous fiction and general interest longer pieces. His work also has appeared in the Atlantic, the New York Review of Books, the New York Times, Natural History, Outside, Rolling Stone, Esquire and Audubon.

McKibben's first book, The End of Nature (1989), is a groundbreaking account of global environmental problems. It has been translated into 16 languages. Another of his books, The Age of Missing Information, examines mass media and environmental deterioration. He also has written books about religion and nature, including Hope, Human and Wild (1995), which is an account of places around the world where "people live more lightly on the planet." McKibben lives with his wife, Sue Halpern, and their daughter Sophie in Ripton, Vermont.

David Suzuki

Broadcaster

David T. Suzuki PhD, Chair of the David Suzuki Foundation, is an award-winning scientist, environmentalist and broadcaster.

David has received consistently high acclaim for his 30 years of award-winning work in broadcasting, explaining the complexities of science in a compelling, easily understood way. He is well known to millions as the host of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's popular science television series, The Nature of Things.

His eight part series, A Planet for the Taking won an award from the United Nations. His eight-part PBS series The Secret of Life was praised internationally, as was his five-part series The Brain for the Discovery Channel. For CBC Radio he founded the long running radio series, Quirks and Quarks and has presented two influential documentary series on the environment, From Naked Ape to Superspecies and It's a Matter of Survival.

An internationally respected geneticist, David was a full Professor at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver from 1969 until his retirement in 2001. He is professor emeritus with UBC's Sustainable Development Research Institute. From 1969 to 1972 he was the recipient of the prestigious E.W.R. Steacie Memorial Fellowship Award for the "Outstanding Canadian Research Scientist Under the Age of 35".

He has received numerous awards including the Roger Tory Peterson Award from Harvard University. He is a Companion of the Order of Canada, and a member of the Order of British Columbia. He has received 18 honorary doctorates - 12 from Canada, four from the United States and two from Australia. First Nations people have honored him with six names, formal adoption by two tribes, and made him an honorary member of the Dehcho First Nations.

David was born in Vancouver, BC in 1936. During World War II, at the age of six, he was interned with his family in a camp in BC. After the war, he went to high school in London, Ontario. He graduated with Honors from Amherst College in 1958 and went on to earn his PhD in Zoology from the University of Chicago in 1961.

The author of 43 books, David Suzuki is recognized as a world leader in sustainable ecology. He lives with his wife, Dr. Tara Cullis, and two daughters in Vancouver.

For a more complete list of David's professional accomplishments and awards, please refer to his full CV here (31.5Kb PDF). To read some of Dr. Suzuki's latest writings, please visit the Science Matters archives. Each week in Science Matters, Dr. Suzuki examines how changes in science and technology affect our lives and the world around us.