Every year the Goldman foundation of San Francisco awards six 100-thousand dollar prizes to environmental activists from each of the five continents and the island nations. The young woman who joins us now is Kory Johnson, of Phoenix, Arizona where is a freshman at Arizona State University. When she was only nine years old, she started a children’s’ crusade for environmental justice after her older sister died. It’s suspected her sister’s death was caused by dirty well water contaminated by nearby industries.
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