Vicki Elson, MA, CCE, CD
Vicki Elson is the co-founder of NuclearBan.US and serves as the Creative Director. When Vicki became a mom in 1981, she became acutely concerned about protecting her beautiful children from nuclear wars and nuclear accidents. She thought she was neurotic, and she told herself to stop worrying so much. She spent 35 years raising her kids and grandkids and making herself happy by working as a childbirth educator, filmmaker, and labor support “doula.” But after Fukushima she started worrying again, and she realized that she’s not neurotic at all — it’s a crazy world where the profits of a few put the entire planet in unspeakable danger. In July 2017, she had a life-changing opportunity to witness the U.N. negotiations for the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, and she watched the roomful of ambassadors break all their own rules (no clapping, no hugging) when the Treaty was agreed. Now she makes herself happy by doing something constructive about nuclear weapons: spreading the message of total abolition to communities across the USA. She thinks that’s an even more important way to help babies and families to live happy, healthy lives. She also writes little songs to inspire citizen action.