ROBERT A CLELAND PURSUIT OF PEACE AWARD HONOREE
CATHERINE BUNTIN
Catherine Buntin, MS., MPH., is a retired Public Health Nurse. Catherine joined the North Suburban Peace Initiative in 2002 as we went to war in Iraq. She developed speaking materials on the effects of Depleted Uranium Weapons by the U.S. military. She worked with colleagues at UIC to coordinate anti-war programs for health professionals on the effects of the war and the moral imperative for resistance. In 2014, she joined The People’s Lobby, a local organization that focuses on poverty, racism and incarceration. She is co-chair of the CAPA Climate Group, a committee focused on the mitigation of climate warming. Catherine promotes seniors collaborating with millennials to resist policies that threaten global security, quality of life and policy issues related to civil liberties. She says, “What keeps me motivated is a focus on the needs of the children of tomorrow! They deserve our time and persistence to protect the laws, democracy, and ecology we have been so fortunate to inherit!”