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 NANCY
PEARLMAN
Second Vice President
Board of Trustees
Nancy Pearlman is currently Second
Vice President of the Board of Trustees for the Los Angeles
Community College District (LACCD) and was elected to the
Board in 2001. She leads the effort to have sustainable buildings
and operations for the District.
Ms. Pearlman is an award-winning
broadcaster, journalist, environmentalist, college instructor,
anthropologist, editor, producer, on-air personality, and
outdoorswoman who has made safeguarding the earth’s
ecosystems both a vocation and an avocation. For forty years,
she has given her time and energy to the environmental cause.
She was selected by the United Nations Environment Programme
as a Global 500 Laureate and has received many other honors
including the Chevron Conservation Award.
Since the 1970s when Nancy coordinated
the first Earth Day in Southern California, she has worked
with and continues to be involved with hundreds of conservation
organizations, serving as administrator, founder, member
of advisory councils, participant, and member of boards of directors.
She founded the Ecology Center of Southern California in
1972, Project Ecotourism in 1993, Humanity and the Planet
in 2001, Earth Cultures in 2004, and Nancy Pearlman, the
Eco-Traveler in 2007.
ENVIRONMENTAL DIRECTIONS, her international
weekly radio series, was started in 1977 and is now the longest-running
environmental radio series in the country on broadcast and
the web. These half-hour programs, with one to three interviews
per show, have featured leading scientists, authors, activists,
and representatives from the business, academic, government,
and nonprofit sectors.
As Executive Producer and Host of
the three-time EMMY-nominated environmental television series
ECONEWS, Nancy covers every ecological issue. Since 1984,
she has presented her programs weekly to over 20 million
homes via cable and
broadcast television and over the Internet. Over 550 shows
air on local origination, public access, governmental, school,
and university channels, as well as on satellite to
PBS stations.
Television documentary specials
that have won awards include: “Gem in the Heart
of the City” (the definitive piece on the Santa Monica
Mountains National Recreation
Area), “Wind: Energy for the 90’s and Beyond,” and “Population
Crisis, USA .” Television show honors include ACE-nominations
(Award for Cable Excellence), Hometown USA Video Festival,
and Diamond Awards. Nancy’s public service announcements
have won numerous Buccaneer Awards from the Public Interest
Radio and Television Educational Society.
As Executive Director to Educational
Communications, Nancy has edited for 39 years the bi-monthly “Compendium
Newsletter” and manages the Environmental Resources
Library. She is also president of a media consulting firm
which creates audio-visual materials. She has taught Cultural
and Physical Anthropology, Broadcasting, Journalism, and
Mass Communications at the college and adult level.
Ms. Pearlman is a member of the
Gypsy Folk Ensemble, and performs and teaches ethnic world
dance. Her athletic achievements include completing the
Western States 100-mile run, finishing the Ironman Triathlon,
climbing more than 100 listed peaks in California, winning
long-distance races such as the 1980 Regional Championship
50-mile race, and performing in equestrian events.
July 2011
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