founder | Ben Goldman

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Ben Goldman is an award-winning artist, activist, author and entrepreneur. He founded United Visual Arts, Inc. in 2005, and became executive director of City Without Walls, a leading New Jersey arts organization, in 2006. His paintings have exhibited in museums and galleries throughout the world, including such prestigious locations as the Allied Museum in Berlin, Germany and the Topkapi Palace in Istanbul, Turkey. Dr. Goldman served as an advisor to the Clinton Administration, and co-founded, directed, and consulted for dozens of organizations.

In the 1990s, he helped transform the environmental movement by coauthoring a landmark study that launched the field of "environmental justice." In the 1980s, he championed the first amendment as president of Public Data Access, Inc., advocating for the first congressionally mandated online public information system and winning a precedent-setting federal court battle over access to congressional finances.

His many books include Sustainable America (U.S. Economic Development Administration 1995) and The Truth About Where You Live (Random House 1992). Dr. Goldman has a Ph.D. from New York University and A.B. from Vassar College. He is listed in Who's Who in America.