Marylia Kelley, Community Contributor

MARYLIA KELLEY is a co-founder and Executive Director at the Livermore-based Tri-Valley CAREs. She brings 34 years of in-depth research, writing and facilitating public participation in decisions regarding the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and the U.S. nuclear weapons complex, nuclear weapons, waste and cleanup. Kelley serves on the "Community Work Group" (since 1989) to advise the federal Environmental Protection Agency, state agencies and the community on the Superfund cleanup of toxic and radioactive pollution at Livermore Lab. She has testified on issues related to the U.S. nuclear weapons complex before the House Armed Services Committee of the U.S. Congress, the California Legislature and the National Academy of Sciences, National Research Council, among other deliberative bodies. Kelley has written for numerous publications, including the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. In 2002, Kelley was inducted into the Alameda County Women’s Hall of Fame. She has lived in Livermore since 1976. marylia@trivalleycares.org