The short biography of Joshua Nessen says he became active in anti-apartheid organizing as an undergraduate at Amherst College following the 1976 Soweto Uprising. He was founder of the Northeast Coalition for the Liberation of Southern Africa and the South African Catalyst Project, a national student organizing group, in 1978. The bio describes his work as the National Student Coordinator for the American Committee on Africa (ACOA) since 1979. This role included organizing student conferences, National Weeks of Anti-Apartheid Action, meetings for students at the United Nations, and local mobilizations in New York City. Nessen also has done speaking on campuses and media outreach. In Fall 1982,...
The short biography of Joshua Nessen says he became active in anti-apartheid organizing as an undergraduate at Amherst College following the 1976 Soweto Uprising. He was founder of the Northeast Coalition for the Liberation of Southern Africa and the South African Catalyst Project, a national student organizing group, in 1978. The bio describes his work as the National Student Coordinator for the American Committee on Africa (ACOA) since 1979. This role included organizing student conferences, National Weeks of Anti-Apartheid Action, meetings for students at the United Nations, and local mobilizations in New York City. Nessen also has done speaking on campuses and media outreach. In Fall 1982, he was coordinator of an International Seminar on Corporate Investment in Namibia. In 1980 and 1981, Nessen was U.S. representative to an international anti-apartheid conference in Sweden and Angola. In 1985, he helped organized the national outreach for the multi-issue April Actions for Peace, Jobs and Justice mobilization that involved 75,000 people in Washington D.C. Nessen earned an MA from the New School for Social Research, and a J.D. from Columbia University Law School.
