Ralph Nader to Address Skidmore Community Ralph Nader, consumer activist and Green Party candidate for president in the 2000 election, will speak at Skidmore College Thursday, Nov. 16.
Admission is free and open to the public.
Nader has spent more than three decades working to raise public awareness of issues related to health, safety, the environment, and worker's rights. Born in 1934 in Winsted, Conn., Nader is a 1955 magna cum laude graduate of Princeton University and a 1958 honors graduate of Harvard Law School, where he edited the Harvard Law Review. Nader's first job in Washington was as a consultant to the U.S. Department of Labor. He also moonlighted as a freelance writer for The Nation and The Christian Science Monitor and acted as an unpaid adviser to a Senate subcommittee, chaired by Connecticut Sen. Abraham Ribicoff, which was looking into the role the federal government might play in auto safety. The article became the foundation for his first book.