1995 into 2018: Information and Consulting Services – Provided research and organizing assistance to environmental organizations, attorneys, and labor unions in Texas, Oklahoma, Alabama, Kentucky, Tennessee, North Carolina, Mississippi, Virginia, and Washington. Campaigns and cases involved PFAS contamination of people and the environment; carbon black pollution in Texas, Oklahoma, and Alabama; mussel die-offs in the Tennessee River; coal waste pollution in Tennessee and Oklahoma.
1988 to 1995: Executive Director, Texans United Education Fund – Houston, Dallas, Austin, Leveland. TX. TUEF was a 70,000 member statewide environmental organization that provided organizing and technical assistance to communities with industrial pollution problems. Responsibilities included community organizing, coalition building, research, lobbying, media relations, and fundraising.
1987-89: Southern Regional Organizer, Board Member, National Toxics Campaign – NTC was a leading environmental organization that assisted communities across the nation seeking environmental justice. From the 1980s thru 1993, the NTC helped citizens develop strategies to hold industry and government accountable for damages to health and the environment. NTC helped citizen groups bring many polluters to court and for strengthening environmental protection legislation. It was instrumental in the expansion and reauthorization of the Superfund and passage of right-to-know legislation.
1985-87: Director, Texas Center for Policy Studies, Toxic Waste Project – Austin, Texas.
Provided statewide organizing and technical assistance to communities with problems associated with hazardous waste generation and disposal.
1984-85: Organizer, United Seniors of Colorado Denver, CO. – Provided organizing assistance to senior citizens on issues related to health care, utilities, and transportation.
1983-84: Coordinator, Citizens Airport Coalition and Montbello Action Coalition – Denver, CO. Organized communities threatened by relocation of the Denver International Airport pollution from the Rocky Mountain Arsenal.
1981-83: Researcher, Writer, and Investigator – Jackson, Mississippi. Prepared reports and participated in investigations related to drug trafficking, political corruption, and the murders of farm labor activists.
1976-81: Director, Mississippi Hunger Coalition, – Jackson, Mississippi. Statewide organization funded by religious organizations to address poverty related problems including hunger, housing, federal feeding programs, minimum wage law violations, and farm worker rights.
1973-76: Director, United Farm Workers Union AFL-CIO Mississippi Office – Jackson, Mississippi. Coordinated statewide consumer boycott and organized labor and religious organizations.
1972-73: Organizer, Mississippians for Creative Public Education, – Jackson, Mississippi. Organized white and black parents in a seven county area to overcome problems associated with public school desegregation.
1969-1972: Mississippi Council on Human Relations, Greater Jackson Area Committee. Organized multi-racial citizen groups to assure the rights of mental patients, students in newly integrated school systems, and those facing military conscription.