Robina Suwol is the founder and Executive Director of California Safe Schools, a children's environmental health and justice coalition founded in 1998.

Awards and recognition

Suwol is a two-time Volvo

Volvo

AB Volvo is a Swedish builder of commercial vehicles, including trucks, buses and construction equipment. Volvo also supplies marine and industrial drive systems, aerospace components and financial services...

 Hero Award recipient (3rd & 5th), Environmental Protection Agency Region IX - 2007 Environmental Award, Women of Spirit Award, and Los Angeles Children's Council Leading Boldly Award, Southcoast Air Quality Management District Environmental Stewardship Award, 2007 U.S. Western Pollution Prevention Hero, Prevention Magazine Hero, 1st Amendment Coalition’s 2009 Beacon Award, Charles Gibbs

Charles Gibbs

Charles Gibbs was an American pirate who was one of the last active in the Caribbean during the early-19th century and was among the last executed for piracy by the United States....

 2009 Environmental Award, and City of Los Angeles

City of Los Angeles

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 Mayor’s Angel Award.

UTNE Reader

Utne Reader

Utne Reader is an American bimonthly magazine. The magazine collects and reprints articles on politics, culture, and the environment from generally alternative media sources, including journals, newsletters, weeklies, zines, music and DVDs...

named Suwol “One of Fifty Visionaries Who are Changing the World". Articles about her have appeared in Ladies Home Journal, Child Magazine, Parent, Prevention Magazine, National Safety Council

National Safety Council

The National Safety Council is a 501 nonprofit, nongovernmental public service organization dedicated to protecting life and promoting health. Headquartered in Itasca, Illinois, NSC is a member organization, founded in 1913 and granted a congressional charter in 1953...

magazine, Children's Advocate, as well as the Los Angeles Times

Los Angeles Times

The Los Angeles Times is a daily newspaper published in Los Angeles, California, since 1881. It was the second-largest metropolitan newspaper in circulation in the United States in 2008 and the fourth most widely distributed newspaper in the country....

, and Daily News

Daily News

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External links

• California Safe Schools Official site
• {http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0839353/ IMDb Internet Movie Database}
• Volvo for Life Awards
• United States Environmental Protection Agency 2007 Environmental Awards
• Prevention Magazine Hero
• EPA Honors Environmental Heroes
• Environmental Justice Conference 2008
• Bioneers
• Southcoast AQMD -Celebrates Clean Air Winners
• August 24, 2007 Waste to Energy Proposal Studied / February 27, 2007 Valley Mom Makes Campuses Safer
• LA-Times Writer: Louis Sahagun March 30, 1998
• Clinton Foundation
• Whole Children, Whole Planet Expo 2008
• Jewish Journal
• Ladies' Home Journal May 2000 Writer: Carol Lynn Mithers
• {http://www.cityofcalabasas.com/environmental/carl-gibbs.html)
• {http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2010/09/12/18658541.php]
• http://apps.cdpr.ca.gov/schoolipm/school_ipm_law/ab_405.pdf
• http://www.firstamendmentcoalition.org/2009/10/first-amendment-coalition-names-free-speech-award-winners-and-one-loser/
• http://www.eenews.net/public/Greenwire/2010/09/10/1
• http://abcnews.go.com/US/school-named-al-gore-built-toxic-soil/story?id=11578357
• http://www.theblaze.com/stories/calif-school-named-for-al-gore-may-be-toxic-for-students/
• {http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2011/09/15/18690352.php}
• {http://www.jewishcommunityheroes.org/nominees/profile/robina-suwol}