Ben Price, National Organizing Director, Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund.  Ben has for twelve years worked with CELDF to coordinate community rights organizing across the country, and has advised and organized in hundreds of communities, many of which adopted community bills of...

Ben Price, National Organizing Director, Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund.  Ben has for twelve years worked with CELDF to coordinate community rights organizing across the country, and has advised and organized in hundreds of communities, many of which adopted community bills of rights that codify the right of local community self-government, the rights of the natural environment, the right to clean air and water, and other rights, while prohibiting corporate activities that violate those rights.

Ben served as adviser to Pittsburgh City Council members and assisted in drafting Pittsburgh's Protection from Natural Gas Drilling Ordinance. He currently works with colleagues in Colorado, Washington, Oregon, New Hampshire, Pennsylvania, Ohio, and California to train, educate and organize local people to adopt community-rights ordinances and charter amendments that subordinate corporate privileges to human and civil rights.

Ben is also organizational liaison with the National Community Rights Network and assists strategic organizing across the country to support community rights movement-building. He is a first-chair Democracy School Lecturer, proponent and activist for the Rights of Nature and author of numerous articles and essays focused on the right of local community self-government.