Harlan Green

About Harlan Green

Harlan Russell Green is 2023 Winner of the Peace Corps Writers’ Publisher’s Award Jul 31, 2023 ·
Harlan Russell Green (Turkey 1964–66) 2023 Publisher’s Award Building Community: Answering Kennedy’s Call, Harlan Green’s memoir of his years working to build successful communities…
Editor and Publisher of PopularEconomics.com, dedicated to “Enhancing the Popular Understanding of Economics”, a financial columnist who has been interviewed by international news outlets, and a documentary filmmaker and photographer. He is also the author of The Mystery of Money, Understanding the Modern Financial World, and has a B.S. in Economics from UC Berkeley, and M.S. in Public Communications (COM ’82) from Boston University.
A lifelong advocate of livable communities, he was a Peace Corps Volunteer in a rural community development program in Turkish villages, joined the US Environmental Protection Agency at its inception to publicize its activities in the Western Region, and became a member of César Chávez’s United Farmworkers Union during its organizing struggles, before contributing to his own community planning effort that resulted in a new city.