Beyond Nuclear is honored to welcome two new board members -- Anna Rondon (left) and Kurumi Sugita (above). (See their full bios on our About page.)
Anna Rondon (Diné) is a lifelong activist for the rights of Indigenous peoples and, in particular, members of the Navajo Nation who have suffered as a result of uranium minining and its deadly legacy.She is the Executive Director of the New Mexico Social Justice and Equity Institute, which works to end the health disparities resulting from decades of environmental degradation by the uranium mining industry, institutional racism directed at Indigenous communities, and multi-generational trauma.
Kurumi Sugita founded the NGO Nos Voisins Lointains 3.11 (Our Distant Neighbors 3.11) in France in 2013. She established a study of 70 Fukushima victims who were outside of the mandatory evacuation zones at the time of the nuclear disaster and has worked extensively with Fukushima accident victims, coordinating conferences and speaking tours for them in France and beyond.