# Nancy Pearlman

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{{Short description|American broadcaster, environmentalist, college instructor and TV producer}}
'''Nancy Sue Pearlman''' (born 1948) is an American broadcaster, environmentalist, college instructor and TV producer. She was honoured on the [Global 500 Roll of Honour](/source/Global_500_Roll_of_Honour) of the [United Nations Environment Programme](/source/United_Nations_Environment_Programme) in 1989.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Polunin |first1=Nicholas |title=World Who Is Who and Does What in Environment and Conservation |date=2009 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-1-134-05938-6 |page=248 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iWb7AQAAQBAJ&pg=PA248 |language=en}}</ref>

== Education ==
She was born in [Huntington, West Virginia](/source/Huntington%2C_West_Virginia), daughter of the physician Carl Kenneth Pearlman and the writer and lecturer Agnes Emma Branch Pearlman.<ref name="FKC">{{cite web |title=For King and Country|volume=II|page=281 |url=https://documents.page/document/r-for-king-or-country-orange-county-california-.html?page=292 |website=documents.page |publisher=Orange County California Genealogical Society}}</ref> Her parents had the [Pearlman Mountain Cabin](/source/Pearlman_Mountain_Cabin) in [Idyllwild](/source/Idyllwild) designed by [John Lautner](/source/John_Lautner).<ref>{{cite web |title=Site Plan - Pearlman Cabin, 52820 Middleridge Drive, Idyllwild, Riverside County, CA |url=https://www.loc.gov/resource/hhh.ca3942.sheet/?sp=3 |website=Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA}}</ref> Her brother Philip Branch Pearlman, a musician, took the surname Gadhan and was father of [Adam Yahiye Gadahn](/source/Adam_Yahiye_Gadahn).<ref name="FKC"/><ref>{{cite magazine |last1=Khatchadourian |first1=Raffi |title=Azzam the American |url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2007/01/22/azzam-the-american |magazine=The New Yorker |date=14 January 2007}}</ref>
thumb|left|Pearlman Mountain Cabin, site plan
Pearlman attended [Chapman University](/source/Chapman_University) from 1966 to 1968, which included two semesters with Chapman's World Campus Afloat (now [Semester at Sea](/source/Semester_at_Sea)) program.<ref>{{cite web |title=Chapman Magazine|date=2002 |url=https://issuu.com/chapmanu/docs/cmmag_spring12/43 |website=issuu.com}}</ref> She then spent a year at [Los Angeles City College](/source/Los_Angeles_City_College) before joining [University of California, Los Angeles](/source/University_of_California%2C_Los_Angeles) in 1969, earning her Bachelor of Arts in [Anthropology](/source/Anthropology) in 1971.<ref name="Polunin">{{cite book |last1=Polunin |first1=Nicholas |title=World Who Is Who and Does What in Environment and Conservation |date=2009 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-1-134-05945-4 |page=1992 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XT_5AQAAQBAJ&pg=PA1992 |language=en}}</ref> That year she founded Concerned Bicycle Riders for the Environment. She cycled wearing a [gas mask](/source/gas_mask) to protest against [smog](/source/smog), and the group organised a "Pollution Solution" bike ride for 1,500, lobbying for [bikeway](/source/bikeway)s.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Guroff |first1=Margaret |title=The Mechanical Horse: How the Bicycle Reshaped American Life |date=4 January 2018 |publisher=University of Texas Press |isbn=978-1-4773-1587-3 |page=133 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BUbHEAAAQBAJ&pg=PA133 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Reid |first1=Carlton |title=Bike Boom: The Unexpected Resurgence of Cycling |date=15 June 2017 |publisher=Island Press |isbn=978-1-61091-816-9 |page=113 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nq-hDgAAQBAJ&pg=PA113 |language=en}}</ref>

Pearlman received her secondary teaching credential at [University of Southern California](/source/University_of_Southern_California) and finally a Master of Arts in Urban Planning with an Environmental Studies Specialty at [Antioch University](/source/Antioch_University) in 1979–1980.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |date= |title=Nancy Pearlman |url=https://www.linkedin.com/in/nancy-pearlman-a9903415 |access-date=26 March 2023 |website=linkedin.com}}</ref>

== Environmental projects and media ==
Since 1970, when she helped organize [Earth Day](/source/Earth_Day) in [Southern California](/source/Southern_California), Pearlman has collaborated with many environmental and conservation groups.

Pearlman has been from 1971 Executive Director of Educational Communications Inc.<ref name=":0" /><ref>{{cite web |title=Educational Communications |url=http://www.ecoprojects.org/ |website=www.ecoprojects.org}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Federation |first1=National Wildlife |title=Conservation Directory 2000: A Guide to Worldwide Environmental Organizations |date=1999 |publisher=Globe Pequot Press |isbn=978-1-55821-945-8 |page=194 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zgTxAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA194 |language=en}}</ref> It supplies radio and television programs on the environment.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Branch |first1=Robert Maribe |last2=Fitzgerald |first2=Mary Ann |title=Educational Media and Technology Yearbook 1999: Volume 24 |date=15 January 1999 |publisher=Libraries Unlimited |isbn=978-1-56308-636-6 |page=118 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ScG4TZE4h_EC&pg=PA118 |language=en}}</ref> She is the host and producer its long-running environmental radio and television programs, ''Environmental Directions''<ref>{{cite web |title=Environmental Directions with Nancy Pearlman - YouTube |url=https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAHwd0X2JA3HyBJoWOl3Hsg/videos?app=desktop |website=www.youtube.com}}</ref> and ECONEWS. ECONEWS was described in 1988 as "the only comprehensive weekly environmental report on TV."<ref>{{cite journal |title=[Alternative Videos and Alternative Music] |journal=Earth Island Journal |date=1988 |volume=3 |issue=3 |page=51 |jstor=43882010 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/43882010 |issn=1041-0406}}</ref> On [overpopulation](/source/overpopulation), Pearlman interviewed [Paul R. Ehrlich](/source/Paul_R._Ehrlich) for ''Environmental Directions'' in 1989, and [Anne H. Ehrlich](/source/Anne_H._Ehrlich) in 1992.<ref>{{cite web |title=Ehrlich (Paul) Papers |url=https://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/kt3r29r8pf/dsc/?query=forest&dsc.position=2501 |website=oac.cdlib.org}}</ref> Speakers on ''Environmental Directions'' on 27 February 2002 were [Tom Snyders](/source/Tom_Snyders) the Bicycling Comedian, and the activist Michael Novick, publisher of the "Turning the Tide" newsletter.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Morell |first1=John |title='Tide' Awash in the Fight on Racism : Activism: Michael Novick's bimonthly newsletter exposes people and attitudes that he feels contribute to an atmosphere of bigotry. |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1992-05-14-vw-2837-story.html |work=Los Angeles Times |date=14 May 1992}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Wheeler |first1=Albert J. |title=Racism: A Selective Bibliography with Indexes |date=2005 |publisher=Nova Publishers |isbn=978-1-59454-479-8 |page=122 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fz-06UGSj7cC&pg=PA122 |language=en}}</ref>

In 1972, Pearlman founded the Ecology Center of Southern California, as a regional conservation organisation and clearinghouse.<ref name=":0" /> Her other ecological activities have included founding Project Ecotourism (1993), and Campus Greening (1994).<ref name=":1">{{Cite web |title=Official Nancy Pearlman Website |url=http://nancypearlman.net/ |access-date=2023-03-26 |website=nancypearlman.net}}</ref>

Pearlman founded, and edited with Lynn Cason, the quarterly ''Directory of Environmental Organizations''.<ref>{{cite book |editor-last1=DesJardins |editor-first1=Dawn Conzett |title=Directories in Print |date=2000 |publisher=Gale Group, Incorporated |isbn=978-0-7876-3016-4 |page=1002 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8tsdAQAAMAAJ |language=en}}</ref> She also edited the bimonthly ''Compendium Newsletter''.<ref name=":2">{{Cite web |title=Nancy Pearlman, World Class Speakers & Entertainers |url=https://www.wcspeakers.com/speaker/nancy-pearlman/ |access-date=2023-03-26 |website=www.wcspeakers.com |language=en-US}}</ref>

== Community college campaign ==
In [California](/source/California), Nancy Pearlman served in Seat 6 of the Board of Trustees [Los Angeles Community College](/source/Los_Angeles_Community_College), for 16 years. The ''[Los Angeles Times](/source/Los_Angeles_Times)'' in 2017 described her role there as that of a "[gadfly](/source/gadfly_(philosophy_and_social_science))", "persistently challenging the board and district administrators."<ref>{{cite news |title=Endorsement: Four for Los Angeles Community College District Board of Trustees |url=https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2022-10-14/endorsement-four-for-laccd-trustees |work=Los Angeles Times |date=14 October 2022}}</ref>

Pearlman was first elected in 2001. Having lost a re-election campaign on March 7, 2017, she entered a special election to fill Seat 7 on the Los Angeles Community College Board of Trustees. On November 8, 2022, she lost the special general election. In November 2024, Nancy Pearlman intends to run for Seat 3.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Nancy Pearlman |url=https://ballotpedia.org/Nancy_Pearlman |access-date=2023-03-26 |website=Ballotpedia |language=en}}</ref>

==Family==
Pearlman married in 1972 the environmental lobbyist Joseph Tasker Edmiston (born 1948), son of Tasker Lee Edmiston and his wife Beula Viola Bates.<ref name="FKC"/><ref>{{cite book |title=Who's Who in California |date=1981 |publisher=Who's Who Historical Society |isbn=978-0-9603166-2-5 |page=158 |language=en}}</ref> The marriage ended in divorce, around 1976.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Communications |first1=Emmis |title=Los Angeles Magazine |date=July 2005 |publisher=Emmis Communications |page=46 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dV0EAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA46 |language=en}}</ref> Tasker Lee Edmiston (1910–2004) was a conservationist, and he and his family were involved in founding the Edmund C. Jaeger Nature Sanctuary (see [Edmund Jaeger](/source/Edmund_Jaeger)) and the Desert Lily Sanctuary.<ref>{{cite web |title=Congressional Record, Volume 150 Issue 21 (Wednesday, February 25, 2004) |url=https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/CREC-2004-02-25/html/CREC-2004-02-25-pt1-PgE227-3.htm |website=www.govinfo.gov}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |title=Our Public Lands |date=1968 |publisher=U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Land Management. |page=9 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=azscwj0UD9AC&pg=PA9 |language=en}}</ref>

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