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Vocation Speaker-in-Residence:
Ralph Hutchison, April 4
Ralph Hutchison has served as Coordinator for the Oak Ridge Environmental Peace Alliance since January 1991. An ordained minister, Ralph is pastor of Bethel Presbyterian Church in Dandridge, Tennesee (since 1985) and he has been active in the Knoxville Area Committee on Central America; Citizens for Justice, Equality, and Fairness; the Knoxville Area Coalition for Compassion, Justice, and Peace; and the East Tennessee Coalition against State Killing.
Ralph has served on an EPA Advisory Committee on Environmental Restoration decision-making (1992-96), as the at-large public representative on the Oak Ridge Health Agreement Steering Panel for the state of Tennessee (1991-97), and on a National Academy of Sciences Panel developing a report on public participation in Environmental Decision-Making (1994). Publications include On Solid Rock, a History of Bethel Presbyterian Church in Dandridge, Tennessee (1993); A Citizen's Guide to Oak Ridge (editor, 1992); The Continuing Assault, a 1998 assessment of DOE NEPA activities in Oak Ridge; and UNSAFE?, a report on safety problems at the Y12 Plant in Oak Ridge (2003). He has served on the Board of Directors of the Alliance for Nuclear Accountability.
Born in New Castle, Pennsylvania, he attended college at Erskine College in South Carolina and graduated from Union Seminary in Richmond, Virginia, in 1983. Ralph is married to Lissa McLeod, a community organizer; they live in Knoxville, Tennessee, in the Riverside Nonviolent Community with their children, Sarah Margaret (9) and Emma (7), four cats, and one dog.
Visit Schedule
Monday, April 4 |
7 p.m. |
Public Lecture in Birkeland Lounge
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