Marsha Coleman-Adebayo

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Dr. Coleman-Adebayo was a senior policy analyst for the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), until she was terminated (EPA claims she is still an empolyee), shortly after revealing the environmental and human disasters taking place in the Brits, South Africa, vanadium mines. Her concerns were similar to the complaints of other whistleblowers. On August 18th, 2000, a federal jury found EPA guilty of violating the civil rights of Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo on the basis of race, sex, color and a hostile work environment, under the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

She is the founder and leader of the No FEAR Coalition and EPA Employees Against Racial Discrimination. Through her leadership the No FEAR Coalition, working closely with Representative James Sensenbrenner, organized a successful grass-roots campaign and secured passage of the “Notification of Federal Employees Anti-discrimination and Retaliation Act,” the first Civil Rights Law of the 21st Century. The Act was signed into law by President Bush in 2002.

Coleman-Adebayo currently serves on the Board of Directors of the National Whistleblower Center, a nonpartisan, nonprofit, advocacy group dedicated to protecting the rights of employee whistleblowers.