Michael Lerner (environmentalist)

Michael Lerner (born 1943, New York City) is co-founder and president of Commonweal, a nonprofit institute in Bolinas, California and co-founder and president emeritus of Smith Center for Healing and the Arts in Washington, D.C.^[1][2][3][4]

Early life and education

Born in 1943 in New York City, Lerner is the eldest son of the political philosopher Max Lerner, author of America as a Civilization and psychologist Edna Albers Lerner. He received an A.B. from Harvard University in 1965 and a Ph.D. in political science from Yale University in 1971.

Career

Lerner taught political science and psychology at Yale before moving to Bolinas, California and co-founding Full Circle, a residential treatment center for children with learning and behavior disorders. In 1976, Lerner co-founded Commonweal, a self-described "educational center," located in Bolinas.

Awards

• 1966 Fulbright Fellowship, Brazil
• 1984 MacArthur Prize Fellowship for contributions to public health
• 1993 U.S.-Japan Leadership Fellowship
• 2009 Environmental Health Hero Award, CleanMed^[5]

Works

• "Surviving the Great Dying", Yes!, Mar 31, 2003
• "The Age of Extinction and The Emerging Environmental Health Movement", Commonweal
• Michael Lerner, PhD. Medicine and the environment. Interview by Bonnie Horrigan.^[6][7]
• Choices in Healing: Integrating the Best of Conventional and Complementary Approaches to Cancer, MIT Press, 1996, ISBN 978-0-262-62104-5

References

External links

• Commonweal.org
• Statement by Michael Lerner
• Keynote by Michael Lerner on freespeech.org
• The New School at Commonweal: Ecology, Culture, Inner Life, podcast