Diane Wilson

Diane Wilson, a fourth-generation shrimper, began fishing
the bays off the Gulf Coast of Texas at the age of eight.
By 24 she was a boat captain. In 1989, while running her
brother's fish house at the docks and mending nets, she
read a newspaper article that listed her home of Calhoun
County as the number one toxic polluter in the country. She
set up a meeting in the town hall to discuss what the
chemical plants were doing to the bays and thus began her
life as an environmental activist. Threatened by thugs and
despised by her neighbors, Diane insisted the truth be told
and that Formosa Plastics stop dumping toxins into the bay.

Her work on behalf of the people and aquatic life of
Seadrift, Texas, has won her a number of awards including:
National Fisherman Magazine Award, Mother Jones's Hell
Raiser of the Month, Louis Gibbs' Environmental Lifetime
Award, Louisiana Environmental Action (LEAN) Environmental
Award, Giraffe Project, Jenifer Altman Award, and the
Bioneers Award. She is co-founder of Code Pink and
continues to lead the fight for social justice.