{{short description|American environmentalist from Arizona}} {{Infobox person | name = Kory Johnson | image = | caption = | birth_name = | birth_date = | birth_place = | death_date = | death_place = | death_cause = | resting_place = | monuments = | citizenship = American | other_names = | education = | alma_mater = | occupation = | years_active = | employer = | organization = | agent = | known_for = Grassroots environmental activism | notable_works = | style = | television = | spouse = | partner = | children = | father = | relatives = | awards = Goldman Environmental Prize (1998) }} '''Kory Johnson''' is an American environmentalist from Arizona.
In 1991, while still a young girl, Johnson led a successful effort by Children for a Safe Environment to stop a hazardous waste dump being built in her local area. In 1996 she joined Greenpeace and helped organize protests against trainloads of DDT-contaminated dirt into Arizona.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=aIDw-iYghioC&dq=%22Kory+Johnson%22+goldman&pg=PA144 Women's Studies Quarterly, Spring/Summer 2001], p. 144.</ref>
She was awarded the Goldman Environmental Prize in 1998,<ref name="goldman">{{cite web|url=http://www.goldmanprize.org/node/114 |title=Kory Johnson |website=goldmanprize.org |accessdate=November 27, 2007 |url-status= dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120306012625/http://www.goldmanprize.org/node/114 |archivedate= March 6, 2012 }}</ref> for her efforts against toxic and nuclear contamination.
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