ALICE SLATER is President of the Global Resource Action Center for the Environment (GRACE) working to form links between the research policy and grassroots communities in order to promote solutions to preserve the future of the planet and protect the quality of the environment. She is a founder of Abolition 2000, a global network working for a treaty to eliminate nuclear weapons and is Convenor of the Abolition 2000 New York Working Group.

Ms. Slater serves on the International Steering Committee for the Middle Powers Initiative, working to influence the nuclear weapons states to move more swiftly to nuclear abolition. She is a member of STAR's Executive and Legal Committees and raised her children on Long Island where she was President of the American Association of University Woman's Massapequa Branch and a founder of the New Democratic Coalition to end the war in Vietnam. She serves on the NYC Bar Association Committee on International Security Affairs, is a board member of the Lawyers Alliance for World Security (LAWS) and Vice Chair of its New York chapter, and a member of the Executive Committee of the Lawyers Committee for Nuclear Policy.

Ms. Slater is a UN NGO Representative and has organized numerous conferences, panels, and roundtables at the UN on nuclear and environmental issues. She is a frequent speaker at meetings and conferences in the US and internationally. She has had articles, interviews, op-eds, and letters published in numerous periodicals and has appeared on radio and television.

Alice Slater
Global Resource Action Center for the Environment (GRACE)
15 East 26th Street, Room 915
New York, NY 10010
tel: (212) 726-9161
fax: (212) 726-9160
email: [email protected]

GRACE is a member of Abolition 2000, a global network working for a treaty to eliminate nuclear weapons.