Maya K. van Rossum, the Delaware Riverkeeper and leader of Community Fund grantee organization Delaware Riverkeeper Network since 1994, is a recognized leader who has been at the frontline of environmental protection in Pennsylvania for decades.
She has taken that experience and written The Green Amendment: Securing our Right to a Healthy Environment. As the leader of a landmark legal victory in Pennsylvania four years ago, which protected communities from fracking, van Rossum is focused on solutions and empowerment of citizens.
From the book’s description:
Following this victory, van Rossum inaugurated the Green Amendment movement, dedicated to empowering every American community to mobilize for constitutional change. In The Green Amendment, van Rossum lays out an inspiring new agenda for environmental advocacy, one that will finally empower people.