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Lola Van Wagenen was born on December 1938 in Provo, Utah. She is an American environmental <a href="/biography/lola-van-wagenen">activist</a> and historian.

Lola Van Wagenen has been raised in a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mormons">Mormon</a> family. She studied at the “Vermont College” where she received her bachelor’s degree in 1982. She later went to the “New York University” where she studied public history, and where she received her master’s degree in1984. She continued her studies in the same university and in ten years she got her PHD in American History. The material she prepared for her doctoral dissertation has been published in 2003 as a book, “Sister-Wives and Suffragists: Polygamy and the Politics of Woman Suffrage 1870-1896”. In 2012 she received the big honor of being included among the “Distinguished Alumni/Alumnae Achievement Award” from the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences at the “New York University”.

Lola Van Wagenen has served since the 70s in many charitable organizations on the capacity of the Board of Directors. Among these charities there are “Shelburne Farms”, the “Vermont Historical Society”, and the “New York Women’s Foundation”. In 1977 she’s also been on the “Task Force on Appropriate Technology” with the U.S. Office of Technology Assessment. In 1979 she’s been a <a href="/biography/lola-van-wagenen">member</a> of the National Commission on the International Year of the Child.

Lola Van Wagenen became known for being the wife of <a href="/biography/robert-redford">actor</a> <a href="/biography/robert-redford">Robert Redford</a>. During her career as an executive producer, she produced several films, among which there are “Mike Douglas Show” in 1961, “Miss America: A Documentary Film”, that has been broadcast on the PBS series American Experience in 2002, and “The State of Marriage”, released in 2015.

Lola Van Wagenen co-founded in 1970 the “Consumer Action Now” (CAN), a non-profit organization intended to educate the consumer about how the products they buy affect the environment. She served as co-chair for 10 years, promoting the environmental cause through public speeches, often presented on local and national televisions.

They started the monthly CAN Newsletter in which they covered many topics about consumer education, conducing researches on many issues, and informing the consumers. Lola Van Wagenen used to write articles in this newsletter, but it eventually stopped being published in 1973.

In 1972 Lola Van Wagenen organized the “Environmental Action Forum” in which activists and consumers gathered to listen to the speakers of many environmental and civic organizations. Thanks to the activity of the CAN, there has been in 1976 the passage of the Toxic Substances Control Act and the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act.

From 1975 to 1977, Lola Van Wagenen developed “The Sun Fund” to raise awareness about the use of alternative energy sources and about the energy conservation. Following this project, she produced the short film “The Solar Film”, and a three-day national TV campaign called “SunDay”, in which many eminent speakers tried to raise awareness about the solar energy, and about the other alternative energy sources.

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In 1979 and 1980, Lola Van Wagenen has been the <a href="/biography/lola-van-wagenen">organizer</a> of the “Women’s Energy Education Project”. The project has been coordinated with the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development and the U.S. Department of Energy, and it finally published the Women Tapping a New Resource for Energy, Women’s Energy Handbook, and Women’s Energy Toolkit.

The “Pratt Institute” also gave her in 1979 an Honorary Doctorate for her work with CAN.

After Lola Van Wagenen completed her studies and got her PHD in 1995, she cofounded with the historian Jeanne Houck the company “Clio Visualizing History Inc.”, which was intended to raise awareness about the American history among the public. After many successful educational projects, including the production of short movies for many private companies, in 2003, after the departure from the company of Jeanne, Lola decided to change the corporate structure to a non-profit organization, and they started to make documentary films, and using the internet and other media to pass their educational projects. The company is still active, and among Clio’s recent projects there are “<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lowell_Thomas">Lowell Thomas</a> and Lawrence of Arabia: Making a Legend, Creating History,” a collaboration between Lola Van Wagenen and the filmmaker Rick Moulton to setup an exhibit featuring archival photos, audio clips, and a short film, presenting a variety of viewpoints on <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lowell_Thomas">journalist</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lowell_Thomas">Lowell Thomas</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T._E._Lawrence">military officer</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T._E._Lawrence">T.E. Lawrence</a>. Another recent project is the “Click! The Ongoing Feminist Revolution,” a collaboration with <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_Ware">Susan Ware</a>, Melanie Gustafson and Marilyn Blackwell, whose exhibit highlights the collective action and individual achievements of women from the 1940s to the present, and features 46 film clips (taken from 27 documentary films), extensive interactive timelines, essays and photos.

At the age of 77, she has been married twice, she has four children and five grandchildren. She married her first husband, <a href="/biography/robert-redford">Robert Redford</a> in 1958, and they later divorced in 1985. The couple had four children, Amy, James, and Shauna, while a fourth one died because of a sudden infant death syndrome, and it’s curious to report that they also had two weddings: first, they held a private one in Las Vegas, Nevada, and then, after a few months, they held another open wedding in Utah.

After her divorce she remained alone until 2002, when she decided to settle again with George Burrill, who is a PhD and the founder of the international development firm “ARD”. They have been together to the present date and, by looking at her photos, she still looks lovely. The couple moved to Vermont, and they organized a fundraising for the city of Christchurch in New Zealand, where George was serving in 2011 as a US delegate to the “United States New Zealand Partnership Forum”, when a devastating earthquake struck. The couple also established in 2012 the “New American Scholarship Fund” at Champlain College.

Lola Van Wagenen, despite not being born in the center of the Internet era, is technologically friendly, and she has a Facebook account she uses every now and then to keep in touch with her friends, or to post articles related to the page of her organization, also present on Facebook under the name “Clio Visualizing History”.

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