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Marilyn Hempel

Marilyn Hempel is the co-founder and Executive Director of Blue Planet United, a non-profit organization dedicated to helping people make connections between population stabilization, sustainable consumption, and the preservation of wild landscapes and seascapes.

For the last 14 years, she has also been the editor of a news journal, the Pop!ulation Press. A committed environmentalist, she has embraced the slogan “no matter what your cause, it’s a lost cause without population stabilization.” Having lived and worked in developing nations and studied population issues for many years, she believes that the interactive problems of overconsumption and overpopulation must be addressed in industrial and developing nations alike. They are also intertwined with the empowerment of women worldwide.

Since participating in the United Nations International Conference on Population and Development in Cairo, September 1994, she has given hundreds of speeches to organizations throughout the United States. She also attended the United Nations International Conference on Women in Beijing in September 1995. In 1999, she was part of a United Nations delegation that inspected family planning clinics and services throughout China.

Marilyn grew up in Southern California—and in East Africa, where her father was Chief of the Social Research Section of the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa. She is a former high school and college teacher. She holds an M.A. from the Claremont Graduate University, a M.Ed. from McGill University, and a B.A. from Pitzer College.