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Co-Chair, GPUS International Committee, 2006 Green Party candidate for Comptroller, NY |
Corporate power, foreign policy/Latin America, education/No Child Left Behind/high stakes testing, labor/trade policy, globalization, SPP |
Dr. Julia Willebrand is an environmental and antiwar activist who has worked for peace and social justice for many years. She ran for Comptroller of New York in 2006 and got over 100,000 votes, the highest ever for a statewide Green Party candidate in New York. She ran for Mayor of New York City in 2001 and State Senate in 1998. Dr. Willebrand is the co-chair of the International Committee of the Green Party of the United States and co-president of the Federation of Green Parties of the Americas (FPVA). She has represented the national party at Global Green meetings in Nicaragua, Peru, Mexico, the Dominican Republic, Brazil, Ireland, and Italy. She is co-founder and former chair of the Westside Local in NYC and former chair of the New York County Green Party.
Dr. Willebrand has served as chair of the NYC Sierra Club Solid Waste Committee, chair of the Manhattan Citizens' Solid Waste Advisory Board, and on the steering committee of the Citywide Recycling Advisory Board, among other positions, and has testified frequently at hearings on solid waste, air and water pollution, and sprawl. She has been a Fulbright Professor to Hungary, a union delegate, chair of college ESL and English programs, a teacher-trainer, and a testing and curriculum development specialist for adult education programs. As a United Federation of Teachers delegate in the 1960s, she was part of a caucus that succeeded in withdrawing their support for the war in Vietnam. She and her late husband were draft counselors, helping young men avoid service in the Vietnam War.
Dr. Willebrand has a B.A. in American Studies from City College, and a Masters and Doctorate in Education from Columbia University.
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