Volume 3 | Issue 2 | Fall 2007

About the Author

David Pellow is an activistscholar who has published widely on environmental justice issues in communities of color in the United States and globally. He received his MA and PhD in Sociology from Northwestern University. His books include The Treadmill of Production: Injustice and Unsustainability in the Global Economy (with Kenneth Gould and Allan Schnaiberg, Paradigm Press, 2008), Resisting Global Toxics: Transnational Movements for Environmental Justice (MIT Press, 2007), and Garbage Wars: The Struggle for Environmental Justice in Chicago (MIT Press, 2002). Dr. Pellow is Professor of Ethnic Studies at the University of California, San Diego where he teaches courses on social movements; environmental justice; globalization; and immigration, race, and ethnicity. He is also the Director of California Cultures in Comparative Perspective, an international research initiative based at UCSD. Dr. Pellow has served on the boards of directors of several communitybased organizations dedicated to improving the living and working environments for people of color, immigrants, and lowincome persons.