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Pam Solo is a leader and strategist in a nationwide effort to build a political culture of action and problem solving through the strengthening of local institutions.
Solo directs a consortium of small and midsized foundations committed to stimulating grassroots involvement in the political process and generating public debate on a wide range of domestic and foreign policy issues, from nuclear policy to economic development. Coordinator of the American Friends Service Committee disarmament programs (1983-85), and a co-founder of the Nuclear Weapons Freeze campaign (1986-87), Solo is the author of a history of the nuclear freeze movement entitled From Protest to Policy (1988). She served on the Colorado Governor’s committee, monitoring the exposure of radiation dangers at Rocky Flats, and spearheaded the campaign to close and convert the nuclear power plant there.
Biography
Solo is president and chief executive officer of the Civil Society Institute in Newton Centre, Massachusetts. She served previously as the director of the Plumsock Fund, the Lucretia Fund, and the Santayana Fund. She was also the president of the Social Venture Network (five hundred CEOs committed to social responsibility in business).
Solo received a B.A. (1969) from Loretto Heights College, Denver, Colorado, and an M.A. (1972) from Goddard College.
Last updated January 1, 2005.
Published on August 1, 1989
