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Ramona Rex

Aloha, Oregon
Population activist
Global Population and Environment Program

Oregon native Ramona Rex joined the Columbia Group Population Committee in 2000 after learning that world population--which had doubled in her lifetime--could double again in 50 years. When she was invited by an organizer with the Club's Global Population and Environment Program to an activist training in Washington, D.C., she jumped at the chance, and has been a nation leader for the Club on population issues ever since. "Population is a global and local issue," she says. "Educating girls, empowering women, providing economic opportunity and access to a wide range of contraceptives can help bring the human population into balance with the rest of the natural world. Read more here.

Published: March 15, 2007