No. 816 Jessi Carrier, 2009

File — Box: 75, Folder: 10

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

Salt Lake-born Jessi Carrier was raised half in Utah and half in New Hampshire. An environmental activist and member of Peaceful Uprising, she describes her youth, schooling, and gradual awakening to her own environmental activism. A camp counselor in New Hampshire, she also volunteered at SUWA and Save Our Canyons before getting involved in her current work. She lobbied once at the Utah Congressional delegation’s offices in Washington, D. C., and while there participated in a rally against a coal-fired power plant. She discusses her worldview at some length and, unfolding what she calls her ecological view of the world and society, describes her sense that environmental activism and issues are bound up in all movements. For her own approach she emphasizes interconnectedness, cooperation, and nonviolent direct action.
Project: Environmental oral history project.
Interviewer: Robert DeBirk

Dates

2009

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