Waves of Change is an online interview series highlighting the diverse faces and perspectives shaping the environmental justice movement throughout the Great Lakes region.

This month, we spoke with Kim Wasserman, executive director of the Little Village Environmental Justice Organization.

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Wasserman played a major role in a years long campaign to close two Chicago coal plants that were negatively impacting residents’ health.

“We actually had numbers where we could go to the City of Chicago and say ‘hey, look, 41 people are prematurely dying every year because of the impacts of coal power plants,’” Wasserman said.

In 2013, Wasserman was awarded the Goldman Environmental Prize for her work.

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Featured image: Photo courtesy of Kim Wasserman

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