Speakers
Rocky Anderson
President, High Road for Human Rights
Former Mayor, Salt Lake City, UT
Climate Oscars Speech: 40kb DOC
Biography:
Ross C. “Rocky” Anderson, founder of High Road for Human Rights, served as Mayor of Salt Lake City from 2000-2008. He was Host City Mayor during the 2002 Salt Lake Winter Olympic Games. Before serving as Mayor, he was listed in Best Lawyers in America, served as Chair of the Utah State Bar Litigation Section, and was Editor-in-Chief of Voir Dire legal journal. He served as President of the boards of the Utah affiliate of the American Civil Liberties Union, Citizens for Penal Reform, and Guadalupe Education Programs. He was a board member of Planned Parenthood Association of Utah and Common Cause of Utah. A vigorous human rights, government reform, and environmental advocate, Rocky was named by the Human Rights Campaign as one of the top ten straight advocates in the United States for GLBT equality and received the Sierra Club Distinguished Service Award, the EPA Climate Protection Award, the Respect the Earth Planet Defender Award, the National Association of Hispanic Publications Presidential Award, The Drug Policy Alliance Richard J. Dennis Drugpeace Award, the Progressive Democrats of America Spine Award, the Air & Waste Management Association Richard Beatty Mellon Stewardship Award, the League of United Latin American Citizens Profile in Courage Award, and the World Leadership Award for environmental programs. Rocky was named by Business Week as one of the top twenty advocates in the world on climate change and served on the Newsweek Global Environmental Leadership Advisory Committee.