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Sam Schabacker 891

Mountain West Director, Food & Water Watch

Sam Schabacker is a Colorado native and Senior Organizer for the consumer advocacy group Food & Water Watch. He organizes with local communities throughout Colorado as they strive for water sustainability and justice. Before working at FWW, he was a national student organizer — working with groups around the country who were pushing their universities to implement socially, economically, and environmentally just practices. He has organized extensively around electoral politics, labor, and U.S. foreign policy issues. He has a B.A. in Economics from the University of Montana. In addition to domestic organizing, he helped coordinate a clean water infrastructure project with a rural community near Cochabamba, Bolivia.