Pam Solo

Pam Solo (born 1946) is an arms control analyst, and Founder and President of the Civil Society Institute.^[1]

Life

She co-founded the Rocky Flats campaign.^[2] In 1978 she was co-director the national Nuclear Weapons Facilities Task Force. She was one of the founders and leaders of the national Nuclear Weapons Freeze Campaign.^[3] She signed a letter in support of eight Czechoslovak protestors who were arrested in 1989.^[4]

She was the campaign director for Pat Schroeder and managed Schroeder's Presidential exploratory campaign.^[5] She worked for the Armed Services Committee staff.

She was active in the Nuclear Weapons Freeze movement, and helped to found Freeze Voter.^[6] In 1992, she founded the Civil Society Institute.

Awards

• 1989 MacArthur Fellows Program^[7]

Works

• From Protest to Policy: Beyond the Freeze to Common Security, Ballinger, 1988, ISBN 978-0-88730-112-4
• The Promise and Politics of Stem Cell Research, Authors Pam Solo, Gail Pressberg, Greenwood Publishing Group, 2007, ISBN 978-0-275-99038-1
• "A Nation of Learners", Letters to the next president: what we can do about the real crisis in public education, Editor Carl D. Glickman, Teachers College Press, 2004, ISBN 978-0-8077-4427-7
• "Beyond Theory: Civil Society in Action", Community Works: The Revival of Civil Society in America, Editor E. J. Dionne, Brookings Institution Press, 2000, ISBN 978-0-8157-1867-3

References

1. http://www.civilsocietyinstitute.org/who.cfm
2. http://rockyflatscoldwarmuseum.org/Newsletters/RFMuseum%20Newsletter.April1.May.07.pdf
3. Making a Real Killing: Rocky Flats and the Nuclear West, Len Ackland, UNM Press, 2002, ISBN 978-0-8263-2798-7
4. http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/1989/apr/13/crackdown-in-prague/
5. "Civil Warrior" Sun Sentinel, Paul Langner, April 20, 1997
6. http://www.swarthmore.edu/Library/peace/DG151-175/DG156FreezeV.html
7. "SOLO SUCCESS PAM SOLO'S QUIET WORK FOR PEACE EARNS A MACARTHUR FOUNDATION GRANT", The Boston Globe, August 3, 1989, Susan Trausch