‘We Are the World’ and 40 years of fighting hunger and homelessness
2025 marks the 40th anniversary of the founding of PIRG’s National Student Campaign Against Hunger and Homelessness.
Douglas H.
Phelps
President and Executive Director, The Public Interest Network
Started on staff: 1979
B.S. Colorado State University, J.D. Harvard Law School
Doug is President and Executive Director of The Public Interest Network. As director of MASSPIRG starting in 1979, he conceived and helped organize the Fund for the Public Interest, U.S. PIRG, National Environmental Law Center, Green Century Capital Management, Green Corps and Environment America, among other groups. Doug ran the public interest careers program at the Harvard Law School from 1976-1986. He is a graduate of Colorado State University and the Harvard Law School.
Posts by Douglas H. Phelps
The Public Interest Network’s 2024 highlights
Ten highlights from 2024, when we remained focused, as always, on our core mission: to tackle problems of abundance. Economic growth, for all its virtues, causes its own set of problems: for our environment, public health, and our sense of connection to each other and to our democracy. Even modest achievements can make a difference in people’s lives and for the natural world.
Environment America’s 2024 highlights
Five highlights of how our advocacy and action in 2024 put our country and our world on a greener, healthier, more sustainable path.
PIRG’s 2024 highlights
Five highlights of how our advocacy and action in 2024 helped make society healthier, safer and more sustainable, and the marketplace a little more honest and transparent for consumers.
Getting the lead out, 10 years after Flint
The Biden administration has taken the most significant step toward protecting our drinking water from lead since the start of the Flint, Michigan, water crisis a decade ago.