Medha Patkar

Medha Patkar spent three years as a member of faculty at the Tata Institute of Social Sciences in Mumbai, India. She founded both the Narmada Bachao Andolan, which has a mass base of tribal and peasant communities, and the National Alliance of People’s Movements, an alliance opposed to policies based on globalization. She was also a member of the World Commission of Dams. She has garnered a number of international honors, including the Goldman Environment Prize (1993) and Amnesty International’s Human Rights Defender’s Award (1999).