Patricia Wright
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"Patricia Chapple Wright, PhD" is an accomplished American primatologist, anthropologist, and Conservation movement/conservationist. Wright is best known for her 27-year study of social and family interactions of wild lemurs in Ranomafana National Park, Madagascar. She is the founder of the Institute for the Conservation of Tropical Environments (ICTE) and Centre ValBio (CVB). Wright has worked extensively on conservation. In the late 1980s she spearheaded an integrated conservation and development project that, in 1991, led to the establishment of Ranomafana National Park.

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There are very few people advocating for the poor in this state or in the country. Poor people have no voice.

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One of the things I think we were helpful in doing was getting some exposure.

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They were looking for a Harvard government major to be a lobbyist for the state of Massachusetts. That was the first and best job I ever had.

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I'm proud to say we were not standing around the reflecting pool. We were in the House of Representatives, and they briefed us as to what was going on, on the Hill that week.

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We hit a nerve. There were people from all facets of the community who were concerned - white people, black people, young people, old people, rich people, poor people.

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After all the attention from this article. I was told that the pressure I put on helped to push the compromise. The original bill called for immediate implementation.

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Things happened throughout that year of desegregation.

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Everyone who wanted an opportunity to speak, got a chance to speak. These are people who had an opportunity to interface with policy makers in a matter that they might not have otherwise had. They were looking at the problem of poverty from so many angles, but they were of one accord.

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There were leaders from around the world at the institute, so my appetite was whetted for this.

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