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Born in New Castle, UK, Peter Mann became a US citizen in 2000. After earlier studies in languages, philosophy, theology and media in the UK, Germany, Italy, and the US, in 1986, he became international coordinator for the New York-based organization WHY (World Hunger Year) founded by Bill Ayres and Harry Chapin. For several years, he coordinated the World Hunger Media Awards (now the Harry Chapin Media Awards). From 1989-1999, he was editor of Why Magazine, followed by its internet successor WHY Speaks (www.whyhunger.org/whyspeaks).

On behalf of WHY, Peter attended UN conferences on the environment, women’s rights, poverty, food, sustainable development and the Millennium Development Goals. In attending these meetings, he met with women’s networks involved in microenterprise; farmers’ groups struggling for land rights and food sovereignty; and, indigenous peoples fighting water privatization. Peter has written extensively on these powerful social movements for water, land, credit, and food as a human right. He is currently co-director of WHY’s Global Movements Program.

Peter was a founding member of Just Food in New York City and a board member of the Community Food Security Coalition (www.foodsecurity.org). He has coordinated a movement-which is documented in WHY’s online Food Security Leaning Center (www.whyhunger.org/fslc)-to rebuild local food systems through community gardens, urban farming, farm-to-school programs, and sustainable agriculture.