‘They made a big mistake when they drove me out of Liberia’
A year and a half after the Liberian government and powerful palm oil companies forcefully drove Alfred Brownell out of the country for fighting to conserve the forestland those companies were going to clearcut, Brownell is still working to protect critical land rights around the world. A Distinguished Scholar in Residence at Northeastern, Brownell has recently received an award that will ensure his safety and protect his legal work in perpetuity.
