Rudy Perkins:
CLASS OF 1971
Willowbrook High SchoolClass of 1971
Villa park, IL
Rudy's Story
I've been living in Massachusetts since the late 1970s, after going to Cornell for my undergraduate studies in upstate New York. In the 1990s I went back to school at Boston College Law School and got a law degree. I now work for a non-profit affordable housing developer as a project manager and staff attorney in western Massachusetts.
I've been very involved in the environmental and peace movements over the years, co-founding the independent political action committee Swing the Vote, which was very active in the 2004, 2006 and 2008 elections in the swing state of New Hampshire. I previously chaired the Millers River Watershed Council in western Mass, an environmental advocacy group. Before law school I worked as the series producer for PBS tele...Expand for more
visionâÂÂs national gardening program, The Victory Garden. I worked for that show on and off for nearly twenty years, first as an off-camera gardener, later as a researcher and then producer.
Some years back I co-owned Bittersweet Farm, an organic farm in Winchendon, MA. Gardening is still an important part of my life, though I no longer do any farming. I've authored various articles on gardening, politics and the environment, and write a guest column on political issues from time to time in one of the area's main daily newspapers. I've done a lot of traveling over the years, including to Iran in 2008 as part of a 'citizens diplomacy' peace delegation and to Venezuela in 2006 to take part in the World Social Forum. I'm married and have two sons.
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