Diane Wilson
Diane Wilson (1948–) is a fourth-generation shrimper, boat captain, mother of five, author, and an environmental, peace, and social justice advocate. She is a co-founder of Code Pink, the women’s anti-war group based in Washington, DC, and co-founder of the Texas Jail Project, which advocates for inmates’ rights in Texas county jails. Since 2012, Wilson has been executive director and waterkeeper of San Antonio Bay Estuarine Waterkeeper on the Texas Gulf Coast. In 2016, she and a small group of former workers and whistleblowers from Formosa Plastics started collecting plastic violations over a 20-mile area of Lavaca Bay and surrounding waterways.
Wilson is the author of many books and even more essays in numerous publications. Her books include An Unreasonable Woman and The Seed Keeper, and she has an essay in Robert Shetterly’s book, Portraits of Earth Justice (New Village Press, 2022) as well.
Wilson was featured in the award-winning documentary Texas Gold, won the Blue Planet Award in Berlin, Germany for her activist work and in March 2020 Netflix featured the SABE Waterkeeper story in Dirty Money series, Point Comfort. In April 2023, Wilson received the coveted Goldman Environmental Prize for North America.