Childs, Christopher

Christopher Childs is a writer, an environmentalist, and an Equity and SAG-AFTRA actor who appeared – primarily in his native New England – in scores of stage productions, and on television and film, prior to a mid-career shift that saw him become an activist and award-winning National Speaker for the U.S. branch of Greenpeace between 1987 and 1996. In the Speaker’s role he was a guest-lecturer at some 300 colleges and universities, was named Lecturer of the Year by the National Association for Campus Activities – chosen from among finalists who included Maya Angelou – and was one of the earlier speakers crisscrossing the country warning of the risks of carbon emissions and a shifting climate. Preoccupied, as a writer, with creative social change, he is the author of The Spirit’s Terrain: Creativity, Activism, and Transformation, published by Beacon Press in 1998 with a Foreword by the Dalai Lama; Publisher’s Weekly called the book a “spiritual manifesto for modern-day social-environmental activists,” and Bill Moyers praised it as “a very powerful insight that has significance for journalism as well as activism”.