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Sango Sulaiman Al Mahdi

A founding member of the African American Environmentalist Association --served as the Southeastern Regional Office Director of AAEA, based in Atlanta, Georgia from 1989-1999.

As S.E. Regional Director, I supported Environmental Justice efforts throughout the South, and provided the Sustainable Development “Urban Village Vision” that won Atlanta a 100 Million-Dollar Empowerment Zone Grant.

I worked to protect the Gullah Geechee Homeland/ Promised Land since 1987, when I lived there. My Forty Acres and a Mule work was featured in the Panos Institute publication in 1990, called “We Speak for Ourselves,” in an article called “In Search of Sherman’s Reservation.”

I was also responsible for Reparations becoming a Principal of Environmental Justice at the First People of Color Environmental Justice Summit, and facilitated the “Treaty Against Environmental and Developmental Racism” at the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development, in Rio De Janeiro in 1991.

Over the last four years, I have focused on becoming a “Spa Therapist,” with cross training in Massage Therapy, Esthetic Skin Care, Spa Body Care, and Trichological Hair and Scalp Care, specializing in Aromatherapy (Essential Oil Therapy), Thalassotherapy (Sea Therapy) Paleotherapy (Earth/Mud Therapy), and Phytotherapy (Plant Therapy). I am also establishing a Spa/Bath and Body Shop in the Charleston area, providing natural or environmentally sound treatments and products. The Office and Spa are dedicated to the Healing of Land Air, Water, and People.

Tree Planting at Martin Luther King Center for Earth Day 1994

(When I was Directror of the Atlanta, George AAEA Office for the Southeastern Region)

I am pictured in the African cap.