Mark Lopez (born 1985 or 1986), better known as mark! Lopez, is an American community organizer and activist from
Los Angeles County
Los Angeles County, officially the County of Los Angeles, and sometimes abbreviated as L.A. County, is the most populous county in the United States and in the U.S. state of California, with 9,861,224 residents estimated as of 2022. It is the ...
,
California.
Lopez is best known for having persuaded the state of California to provide
lead testing and cleanup for homes in East Los Angeles, California, East Los Angeles that had been contaminated and polluted by a battery smelter for over thirty years. He was awarded the Goldman Environmental Prize in 2017.
References
Year of birth uncertain
Living people
American community activists
Goldman Environmental Prize awardees
University of California, Santa Cruz alumni
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