Thomas Estabrook, Ph.D.

Lead Educator

Phone: 978-934-3397

Email: Thomas_Estabrook@uml.edu

Tom Estabrook holds a Ph.D. in geography and political economy, with a focus on labor/environmental coalitions and global economic development, from Clark University.

Tom Estabrook is a senior worker health and safety trainer at UMass Lowell's The New England Constortium, where he has worked for 13 years, conducting numerous worker health and safety courses in hazardous waste operations and emergency preparedness and response, construction safety, and work zone safety.  He applies popular education (empowerment) techniques at every opportunity.  Tom also conducts workshops on clean production and pollution prevention.  He is an adjunct professor in the Department of Community Health and Sustainability at UMass Lowell where he teaches an undergraduate community health course.  Prior to Estabrooks' work with TNEC, he served as coordinator of the Louisiana Labor-Neighbor Project (a project of the Oil Chemical and Atomic Workers' Union) and executive director of the Boston-based Massachusetts Toxics Campaign.  He is a governing board member of the Alliance for a Healthy Tomorrow, a coalition of public health, environmental, community and labor organizations promoting progressive environmental policies in Massachusetts.  Mr. Estabrook is also an active union leader in the Massachusetts Teachers Association.  He has lived extensively in Europe and Latin America and is an avid traveler, soccer dad and distance runner.