Defend is Hiring a Director of Development and Community Engagement

Defend Our Health is hiring a Director of Development and Community Outreach. Defend is a public health and social justice nonprofit that works to create a world where all people are thriving, with equal access to safe food and drinking water, healthy homes, and products that are toxic-free and climate-friendly. We apply the best science…  Read more »

Our 2021 Victories

2021 has been an eventful year full of numerous victories and we couldn’t have done it without our amazing supporters!  Our supporters helped make all of these victories possible through various means of support and by gifting us the funds to run these ambitious campaigns.  We are very proud of the work Defend has done…  Read more »

What Organizing Looks Like

A little-known issue links communities in Guatemala, where I’m from, to communities in Maine: arsenic contamination of drinking water. I was first convinced of the power of organizing for change when I spent time in a Guatemalan community organizing around water contamination. And it is my work in Maine on this issue that reminds me of…  Read more »