Carl C. Anthony (1938–2026) was an architect, regional planner, social and environmental justice activist, and author. He founded and served as President of the Alameda Center for Environmental Technology. He was also the co-founder and former executive director of the Urban Habitat Program, one of the country’s first environmental justice organizations. He worked at the Ford Foundation’s Sustainable Metropolitan Communities Initiative, and was an assistant professor and fellow at UC Berkeley, Columbia University, and Harvard University.

Anthony edited and published the first environmental justice periodical, Race, Poverty and the Environment Journal, with his colleague Luke Cole. He explains his philosophies and tells the story of his life’s work in The Earth, the City, and the Hidden Narrative of Race (New Village Press, 2017). 

Anthony and Dr. Paloma Pavel co-founded and co-direct Breakthrough Communities, a project dedicated to building multiracial leadership for sustainable communities in California and the rest of the nation. He and Dr. Pavel were visiting faculty at UC Davis’s Center for Regional Change. He lived primarily in Berkeley, California. 

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