Diane Wilson

Diane Wilson, a fourth-generation shrimper, began fishing the bays off the Gulf Coast of Texas at the age of eight. By 24 she was a boat captain. In 1989, while running her brother's fish house at the docks and mending nets, she read a newspaper article that listed her home of Calhoun County as the number one toxic polluter in the country. She set up a meeting in the town hall to discuss what the chemical plants were doing to the bays and thus began her life as an environmental activist. Threatened by thugs and despised by her neighbors, Diane insisted the truth be told and that Formosa Plastics stop dumping toxins into the bay.

Her work on behalf of the people and aquatic life of Seadrift, Texas, has won her a number of awards including: National Fisherman Magazine Award, Mother Jones's Hell Raiser of the Month, Lois Gibbs' Environmental Lifetime Award, Louisiana Environmental Action (LEAN) Environmental Award, Giraffe Project, Jenifer Altman Award, and the Bioneers Award. She is a founding member of CODEPINK and continues to lead the fight for social justice.

An Unreasonable Woman is Diane's first book.

Diane's Upcoming Events

• Diane Wilson at U-Conn's Feminism In Action Conference
  
  University of Connecticut, Storrs CT
  March 26, 2010, 9:00 am

  Diane Wilson will speak at the University of Connecticut's 22nd Annual Conference on Women and Gender, entitled "Feminism In Action" this year, on March 26th in Storrs, CT. Visit the conference webpage above for further details.