Appearances and Media

Recent & Upcoming Events

"When We Marched For You" and "Roc."
Two Paintings Commissioned by the NC Museum of Art for forthcoming "RACE: Are We So Different?" exhibit. Spring 2024.

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"Warren County Concerned Citizens About PCBs." "Emerging Ecologies: Architecture and the Rise of Environmentalism" exhibit. Museum of Modern Art (MoMA). Running Until January 2024.


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"Warren County Evironmental Justice and the Law." September 28, 2022. The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

"The Thinking Behind Warren County's PCB Protests." October 10, 2022. Virginia Tech University.

WUNC 91.5 North Carolina Public Radio

“The State of Things with Frank Stasio” Meet Deborah and Ken Ferruccio

North Carolina Public Radio | By Alex Granados, Frank Stasio
Published October 24, 2011 at 9:37 AM EDT

Ken and Deborah Ferruccio are the accidental instigators of the Environmental Justice Movement. It all started in 1978, when the North Carolina government decided to build a landfill for toxic PCBs in Warren County. The Ferruccios were recent transplants to the area and were outraged at the proposal. They vowed to fight it. Along the way, they organized the community and tied environmental issues to race discrimination. Host Frank Stasio talks to Ken and Deborah Ferruccio about the Warren County Landfill and helping launch the Environmental Justice Movement.

The NC PCB Story from Roadside to Warren County

Produced with Tommy and Leslie James.

Dr. Joel Hirshorn describes Problems at the PCB Landfill

More Problems at the Landfill

"Warren County, NC PCB Protest March Day One: By Matt Cooper, Jr.

Dr. Eileen McGurty on The NC PCB Story

Reverend Willie T. Ramey and Deborah Ferruccio Talk About How the Environmental Justice Movement Began

Northampton County Citizens Against Coal Ash Presentation by Deborah & Ken Ferruccio

Produced with Tommy and Leslie James.

Carol Limer and Larry Limer speak with Deborah Ferruccio about the beginnings of the PCB movement. The interview was in 2012 in conjunction with the 30th anniversary of the PCB movement.

Warren County's Environmental Protests Remembered