Campus room: Burke Room, main floor of the Burke Museum
The public is invited to join the public speaker series connected to an anthropology course entitled “Climate Change and Nuclear Risk: Oceania” (Anth 479). The Wednesday lecture series is open and free to the public, and takes place in the Burke Room at 12:30 p.m.
Representative Gerry Pollet, Washington State House of Representatives
Representative Pollet is a graduate of the University of Washington Law School, and has spent his career as a public interest attorney. He serves as Executive Director of Heart of America Northwest. Heart of America Northwest is a region-wide citizens’ group dedicated to the clean-up of the Hanford Nuclear Reservation, which is the most contaminated area in the western hemisphere. For more than 10 years, Gerry chaired the committee of the U.S. Department of Energy’s Hanford Advisory Board, which oversees Hanford’s $2 billion per year budgets, management, and contracts. Representative Pollet teaches at the University of Washington’s School of Public Health
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