Vincent Intondi, PhD Executive Director
A nuclear disarmament expert whose research focuses on the intersection of race and nuclear weapons, he brings over twenty years of grassroots organizing, academic, and NGO experience to Oregon PSR. Vincent has extensive experience in researching, writing, and speaking about environmental justice including the effects of climate change, fossil fuels, nuclear waste, and mining on marginalized and indigenous communities.
Prior to joining Oregon PSR, Vincent was a research scholar at Cornell University’s Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies. From 2023-2024, he was a senior lecturer in the International Relations department at Webster University-Leiden in the Netherlands. From 2013-2023, he was a full-professor of history and founder and director of the Institute for Race, Justice, and Civic Engagement at Montgomery College in Takoma Park, Maryland. Prior to teaching at Montgomery College, Vincent served as director of research for American University’s Nuclear Studies Institute in Washington, DC and was an associate professor of history at Seminole State College in Sanford, Florida.
Intondi is the author of African Americans Against the Bomb: Nuclear Weapons, Colonialism, and the Black Freedom Movement (Stanford University Press) and Saving the World from Nuclear War: The June 12, 1982, Disarmament Rally and Beyond (Johns Hopkins University Press). His work has been featured by many of the organizations we hold in high esteem, including the Union of Concerned Scientists, IPPNW, and the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN).
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