Kevin Martin

Kevin Martin is Executive Director of Peace Action and Peace Action Education Fund. Martin previously served as Director of Project Abolition from August 1999 through August 2001. Project Abolition was a national organizing effort for nuclear disarmament initiated by the Fourth Freedom Forum in Goshen, Indiana, with Peace Action, Physicians for Social Responsibility, Women’s Action for New Directions, and other national peace groups. Kevin came to Project Abolition after ten years in Chicago as Executive Director of Illinois Peace Action. In 1999 he received a Lifetime Achievement Award from national Peace Action. Kevin’s writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Nation, The Village Voice, The Chicago Tribune, Chicago Sun-Times, The Progressive, Z magazine and many other publications. He has appeared on CNN, National Public Radio, Fox News, MSNBC, BBC-TV and radio, and many other local, national and international radio and television outlets. Tel: 301.565.4050 / Email: kmartin@peace-action.org.

Peace Action is the nation’s largest grassroots peace group and the merger of SANE and the Nuclear Freeze. It has effectively mobilized for peace and disarmament for nearly 50 years. www.peaceaction.org.