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18 AN T I OC H CO L L E G E C L A S S O F 19 6 5 5 0 t h A N N I V E R S A R Y B O O K A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z B R O W N BROWN, JERRY B. THEN AND NOW 4 B.A. Philosophy 4 Ph.D. Anthropology, Cornell FAMI LY 4 Wife, Julie Marlene Brown 4 Two sons ADDRESS 4 2020 Alameda Padre Serra, #135 Santa Barbara, CA 93103 CONTACT 805 892-4600 or 305 321-5612 jbbrown@gate.net A F T E R L E A V I N G A N T I O C H I went on to Cornell University where I received a doctorate in an- thropology. I had the good fortune of doing my field work with Cesar Chavez and the farmworkers move- ment in the late 1960s, where I co- ordinated the grape boycott for sev- eral years. My organizing activities with the national and international grape boycotts are recounted by his- torian Matt Garcia in chapters two and three of his book, From the Jaws of Victory, 2012. Many anthropolo- gists live long enough to revisit their “village” after 20 years, but few live long enough to see their fieldwork become the stuff of history. Inspired by Cesar Chavez, Martin Luther King, and of course the epithet of Horace Mann, I de- cided to devote my career to teach- ing, applied research and public ser- vice on behalf of social justice and environmental issues. During the mid-1980s, I worked with Business Executives for National Security, an organization of Fortune 1000 CEOs dedicated to preventing nuclear war and ending the Cold War with the former USSR. In the early 2000s, I served as Executive Director of the Radiation and Public Health Project’s baby teeth study, which measured levels of radioactive Strontium-90, emit- ted by nuclear power plants, in U.S. children’s baby teeth. Currently, I live in Santa Barbara where I direct the World Business Academy’s Safe Energy Project, which is working to shut down the high-risk Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant and to transition California to 100% renew- able energy.We are advocating the rapid integration of hydrogen fuel cells into the distributed electri- cal grid of the future. I believe that fuel cells running on green hydro- gen, which emit zero GHG, will be the computer chips of the emerging global energy revolution. My main research and writ- ing has been in the energy area. I am co-author of Profiles in Power: The Antinuclear Movement and the Dawn of the Solar Age (1997) and Freedom from Mid-East Oil (2007), and author of nu- merous articles on renewable en- ergy, nuclear power and the impact of radiation on human health. From 1972 to 2014, I served as founding professor of anthropology at Florida International University Grape boycott, late 1960s.