Save the Date for a Celebration of Professor Alfred Brownell's Goldman Prize
Wednesday, June 19, 2019 | 12:00 - 1:30 PM 
250 Dockser Hall, Northeastern University School of Law

Pizza and refreshments will be provided. 

This event is sponsored by the School of Law's Program on Human Rights and the Global Economy and its
Center for Center for Public Interest Advocacy and Collaboration

In April, Alfred Brownell, Distinguished Scholar in Residence in the School of Law's Program on Human Rights and the Global Economy (PHRGE), was awarded the prestigious Goldman Environmental Prize for his extraordinary work protecting land rights. The Goldman Environmental Prize honors grassroots environmental heroes from the world’s six inhabited continental regions: Africa, Asia, Europe, Islands & Island Nations, North America, and South and Central America. The Prize recognizes individuals for sustained and significant efforts to protect and enhance the natural environment, often at great personal risk. The Goldman Prize views “grassroots” leaders as those involved in local efforts, where positive change is created through community or citizen participation in the issues that affect them. Through recognizing these individual leaders, the Goldman Prize seeks to inspire other ordinary people to take extraordinary actions to protect the natural world.
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One of Africa’s leading environmental and human rights defenders, Brownell has been in residence at Northeastern since in 2016 — he and his family were forced to flee his native Liberia after an attempt on his life in response to his leadership in protecting community land rights. Join us on Wednesday, June 19, as we honor Brownell's extraordinary accomplishments.