Nancy Pearlman

She was born in Huntington, West Virginia, daughter of the physician Carl Kenneth Pearlman and the writer and lecturer Agnes Emma Branch Pearlman.{{cite web |title=For King and Country|volume=II|page=281 |url=https://documents.page/document/r-for-king-or-country-orange-county-california-.html?page=292 |website=documents.page |publisher=Orange County California Genealogical Society}} Her parents had the Pearlman Mountain Cabin in Idyllwild designed by John Lautner.{{cite web |title=Site Plan - Pearlman Cabin, 52820 Middleridge Drive, Idyllwild, Riverside County, CA |url=https://www.loc.gov/resource/hhh.ca3942.sheet/?sp=3 |website=Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA}} Her brother Philip Branch Pearlman, a musician, took the surname Gadhan and was father of Adam Yahiye Gadahn.{{cite magazine |last1=Khatchadourian |first1=Raffi |title=Azzam the American |url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2007/01/22/azzam-the-american |magazine=The New Yorker |date=14 January 2007}}

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Pearlman attended Chapman University from 1966 to 1968 which included 2 semesters with Chapman’s 'World Campus Afloat and Semester at Sea' program.{{cite web |title=Chapman Magazine|date=2002 |url=https://issuu.com/chapmanu/docs/cmmag_spring12/43 |website=issuu.com}} She then spent a year at Los Angeles City College before joining University of California, Los Angeles in 1969, earning her Bachelor of Arts in Anthropology in 1971.{{cite book |last1=Polunin |first1=Nicholas |title=World Who Is Who and Does What in Environment and Conservation |date=2009 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-1-134-05945-4 |page=1992 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XT_5AQAAQBAJ&pg=PA1992 |language=en}} That year she founded Concerned Bicycle Riders for the Environment. She cycled wearing a gas mask to protest against smog, and the group organised a "Pollution Solution" bike ride for 1,500, lobbying for bikeways.{{cite book |last1=Guroff |first1=Margaret |title=The Mechanical Horse: How the Bicycle Reshaped American Life |date=4 January 2018 |publisher=University of Texas Press |isbn=978-1-4773-1587-3 |page=133 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BUbHEAAAQBAJ&pg=PA133 |language=en}}{{cite book |last1=Reid |first1=Carlton |title=Bike Boom: The Unexpected Resurgence of Cycling |date=15 June 2017 |publisher=Island Press |isbn=978-1-61091-816-9 |page=113 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nq-hDgAAQBAJ&pg=PA113 |language=en}}

Pearlman received her secondary teaching credential at University of Southern California and finally a Master of Arts in Urban Planning with a Environmental Studies Specialty at Antioch University in 1979-1980.{{Cite web |date= |title=Nancy Pearlman |url=https://www.linkedin.com/in/nancy-pearlman-a9903415 |access-date=26 March 2023 |website=linkedin.com}}

Since 1970, when she helped organize Earth Day in Southern California, Pearlman has collaborated with many environmental and conservation groups.

Pearlman has been from 1971 Executive Director of Educational Communications Inc.{{cite web |title=Educational Communications |url=http://www.ecoprojects.org/ |website=www.ecoprojects.org}}{{cite book |last1=Federation |first1=National Wildlife |title=Conservation Directory 2000: A Guide to Worldwide Environmental Organizations |date=1999 |publisher=Globe Pequot Press |isbn=978-1-55821-945-8 |page=194 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zgTxAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA194 |language=en}} It supplies radio and television programs on the environment.{{cite book |last1=Branch |first1=Robert Maribe |last2=Fitzgerald |first2=Mary Ann |title=Educational Media and Technology Yearbook 1999: Volume 24 |date=15 January 1999 |publisher=Libraries Unlimited |isbn=978-1-56308-636-6 |page=118 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ScG4TZE4h_EC&pg=PA118 |language=en}} She is the host and producer its long-running environmental radio and television programs, Environmental Directions{{cite web |title=Environmental Directions with Nancy Pearlman - YouTube |url=https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAHwd0X2JA3HyBJoWOl3Hsg/videos?app=desktop |website=www.youtube.com}} and ECONEWS. ECONEWS was described in 1988 as "the only comprehensive weekly environmental report on TV."{{cite journal |title=[Alternative Videos and Alternative Music] |journal=Earth Island Journal |date=1988 |volume=3 |issue=3 |page=51 |jstor=43882010 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/43882010 |issn=1041-0406}} On overpopulation, Pearlman interviewed Paul R. Ehrlich for Environmental Directions in 1989, and Anne H. Ehrlich in 1992.{{cite web |title=Ehrlich (Paul) Papers |url=https://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/kt3r29r8pf/dsc/?query=forest&dsc.position=2501 |website=oac.cdlib.org}} Speakers on Environmental Directions on 27 February 2002 were Tom Snyders the Bicycling Comedian, and the activist Michael Novick, publisher of the "Turning the Tide" newsletter.{{cite news |last1=Morell |first1=John |title='Tide' Awash in the Fight on Racism : Activism: Michael Novick's bimonthly newsletter exposes people and attitudes that he feels contribute to an atmosphere of bigotry. |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1992-05-14-vw-2837-story.html |work=Los Angeles Times |date=14 May 1992}}{{cite book |last1=Wheeler |first1=Albert J. |title=Racism: A Selective Bibliography with Indexes |date=2005 |publisher=Nova Publishers |isbn=978-1-59454-479-8 |page=122 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fz-06UGSj7cC&pg=PA122 |language=en}}

In 1972, Pearlman founded the Ecology Center of Southern California, as a regional conservation organisation and clearinghouse. Her other ecological activities have included founding Project Ecotourism (1993), and Campus Greening (1994).{{Cite web |title=Official Nancy Pearlman Website |url=http://nancypearlman.net/ |access-date=2023-03-26 |website=nancypearlman.net}}

Pearlman founded, and edited with Lynn Cason, the quarterly Directory of Environmental Organizations.{{cite book |editor-last1=DesJardins |editor-first1=Dawn Conzett |title=Directories in Print |date=2000 |publisher=Gale Group, Incorporated |isbn=978-0-7876-3016-4 |page=1002 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8tsdAQAAMAAJ |language=en}} She also edited the bimonthly Compendium Newsletter.{{Cite web |title=Nancy Pearlman, World Class Speakers & Entertainers |url=https://www.wcspeakers.com/speaker/nancy-pearlman/ |access-date=2023-03-26 |website=www.wcspeakers.com |language=en-US}}

In California, Nancy Pearlman served in Seat 6 of the Board of Trustees Los Angeles Community College, for 16 years. The Los Angeles Times in 2017 described her role there as that of a "gadfly", "persistently challenging the board and district administrators."{{cite news |title=Endorsement: Four for Los Angeles Community College District Board of Trustees |url=https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2022-10-14/endorsement-four-for-laccd-trustees |work=Los Angeles Times |date=14 October 2022}}

Pearlman was first elected in 2001. Having lost a re-election campaign on March 7, 2017, she entered a special election to fill Seat 7 on the Los Angeles Community College Board of Trustees. On November 8, 2022, she lost the special general election. In November 2024, Nancy Pearlman intends to run for Seat 3.{{Cite web |title=Nancy Pearlman |url=https://ballotpedia.org/Nancy_Pearlman |access-date=2023-03-26 |website=Ballotpedia |language=en}}

Pearlman married in 1972 the environmental lobbyist Joseph Tasker Edmiston (born 1948), son of Tasker Lee Edmiston and his wife Beula Viola Bates.{{cite book |title=Who's Who in California |date=1981 |publisher=Who's Who Historical Society |isbn=978-0-9603166-2-5 |page=158 |language=en}} The marriage ended in divorce, around 1976.{{cite book |last1=Communications |first1=Emmis |title=Los Angeles Magazine |date=July 2005 |publisher=Emmis Communications |page=46 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dV0EAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA46 |language=en}} Tasker Lee Edmiston (1910–2004) was a conservationist, and he and his family were involved in founding the Edmund C. Jaeger Nature Sanctuary (see Edmund Jaeger) and the Desert Lily Sanctuary.{{cite web |title=Congressional Record, Volume 150 Issue 21 (Wednesday, February 25, 2004) |url=https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/CREC-2004-02-25/html/CREC-2004-02-25-pt1-PgE227-3.htm |website=www.govinfo.gov}}{{cite book |title=Our Public Lands |date=1968 |publisher=U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Land Management. |page=9 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=azscwj0UD9AC&pg=PA9 |language=en}}

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