environmental justice
Bob Fulkerson
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Western States Center incubated PLAN in 1993-4, and we've been close allies ever since. The Center's success in building leaders in Nevada and throughout the west has been a huge boost to our movement. Thanks for all you've done and happy 21st!
Howard Watts III
I have many good memories and stories that I could share in relation to Western States' amazing trainings and programs, but the one I will focus on is my very first community organizing. It was a 2 or 3 day introduction to social change organizing led by the Western States staff. I was at that time a volunteer doing assorted odds and ends for the Progressive Leadership Alliance of Nevada.
Jeff Malachowsky
21 years old, eh? That seems about right - my daughter Sarah was born during the first year of Western States, and she's turning 21. We put her photo on the cover of the first issue of the Western States newsletter, held in the arms of Len Norwitz, one of our first staff - Rebecca Roby and Jill Spencer were in that picture, too. How time flies!
Scot Nakagawa
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For most of the 21 years it has been in existence, the Western States Center has been a source of strategic, technical, and social support to me and organizations I've worked with. I consider it a political home of sorts; a place where I gained many of the skills, the relationships and the confidence I needed to carve out a life in social change in the west.
Elizabeth Fussell
I was introduced to Western States only last year when I started to work with Aimee Santos Lyons to strengthen the AWC's base-building approach. She has been a tremendous mentor, and has supported our work in so many different ways; always pushing us towards a more holistic social justice model.
