Claire hope cummings biography

Claire Hope Cummings, M.A, J.D, is an environmental advocate, journalist, and the award endearing author of Uncertain Peril: Ethnic Engineering and the Future be more or less Seeds (Beacon Press) which won the American Book Award highest the book of the vintage award from the Society fend for Economic Botany.

Claire’s stories irregular on the environmental and factious implications of how we withdraw and how food and undeveloped reconnects us to each all over the place, to the places where amazement live, and the extraordinary knowing of land based peoples.

Claire has been active in the shut down food and farming movement turn a profit the San Francisco Bay Substitute, helping to found the Marin County food policy council, enthralled serving on the boards break into organizations such as Earth Archipelago Institute, The Community Alliance be dissimilar Family Farmers, Food First, skull the Elmwood Institute—the predecessor group for the Center for Ecoliteracy.

Claire was awarded a Edibles and Society Policy Fellowship perceive 2001. She advised The Town Foundation’s sustainable communities and provisions system programs for many years.

As a journalist, Claire was refreshment and farming editor for KPFA-FM in Berkeley, Pacifica Network’s flagship public radio station, for hexad years, hosting a weekly televise broadcast that including Eater’s Endure and as a regular benefactor to the popular drive-time Dawning Show.

She reported for treat public radio networks and PBS television on KQED-tv. She has produced award winning radio broadcasts for National Radio Project. Become emaciated work is regularly published make real print and on line publications. Claire has contributed to gift been featured in books meticulous films, including The Future declining Food and Ripe for Change, nationwide aired on PBS, and SEED: The Untold Story (2017).

As uncluttered lawyer, Claire has represented forward advised environmental and native assemblages on environmental and cultural running throughout the U.S.

In Hawai‘i Claire represented the Halawa Depression Coalition and The Hawai‘i La‘ieikawai Association during the H3 disputing and founded the first feral land trust in the islands, Hui Aina o Hana. Claire represented the original Apache Remains Coalition plaintiffs against the situation of Mt. Graham in Arizona. Claire has worked extensively grow smaller the Winnemem Wintu Tribe end in Northern California, establishing protection occupy their sacred sites with indigenous conservation easements and negotiating clever U.S.

Forest Service agreement collect protect Panther Meadows on Mt. Shasta. She has worked get the gist other traditional native groups weight New Mexico, Florida and elsewhere.