Steve Chase

Steve Chase was the director of the Advocacy for Social Justice and Sustainability program in the department of Environmental Studies at

activist, organizer, Quaker

, lecturer, and editor.

Biography

Steve Chase attended the Metropolitan State University in Minneapolis. He participated in a program of self-designed study, focusing on writing, publishing, social and ecological issues, and non-profit organizational management. Chase earned an MS in Environmental Studies came from Antioch University New England in May 1996. He became the Director of Antioch's Advocacy for Social Justice and Sustainability program (Formerly called the Environmental Advocacy And Organizing program), which he helped found, and used as the subject of his Ph.D. dissertation, in July 2002. The dissertation is titled Activist Training In The Academy: Developing a Master's Program in Environmental Advocacy and Organizing. Chase completed his Ph.D. at Antioch in November 2006.

In 2002–2003, The Robert and Patricia Switzer Foundation awarded Chase with the Switzer Environmental Leadership Grant, which covered his salary for the first year of the new program. In 2003-2004 Chase received the Ella Baker Fellowship to support and promote dialog between leaders in the business, academic, and non-profit arenas in the interest of positive social change.

Chase has taught courses in Organizing Social Movements and Campaigns; Corporate Power, Globalization, and Democracy; Organizational Leadership in the Nonprofit World; and Environmental Justice in the Mississippi Delta.

Steve Chase was the guest editor for

ISBN 0-8165-2207-3

) included his essay Changing the Nature of Environmental Studies: Teaching Environmental Justice to 'Mainstream' Students.'

Chase is a member of the National Organizers Alliance, and

Green Party from 1984 to 1986, helped co-found Men Against Rape and Sexism (MARS) in 1980, and was a shop steward for the International Typographical Union

, Local 9, in 1984.

Books

Chase, Steve, ed. Defending the Earth: A Dialogue Between Murray Bookchin and Dave Forman. (
ISBN 0-89608-383-7

Chase, Steve. Letters to a Fellow Seeker. (Philadelphia, PA: QuakerPress of
ISBN 1-937768-02-3

References

EnvironmentalPrograms.net Interview with Steve Chase
Robert and Patricia Switzer Foundation Environmental Programs

External links

Action Alert: Willie Fonenot by Steve Chase, April 11, 2005
Ella Baker Center for Human Rights
Environmental Advocacy: Academic Requirements, Professional Outlook published on EnvironmentalPrograms.net - August 1, 2003
Take Action for Willie Fontenot, letters include one by Chase