Rory McIlmoil

Rory McIlmoil, 28, currently lives in Rock Creek, WV, though his family resides in Locust Grove, VA. He is a recent graduate of American University, earning a Master of Arts in Global Environmental Politics, for which he wrote his thesis on Mountaintop Removal in West Virginia, entitled "One Step Back Toward Almost Heaven: A Production-Based Proposal for the Elimination of Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining in West Virginia.

Rory worked as a Research Assistant with Appalachian Voices for 8 months in 2007, and is now heading a campaign promoting wind power as a viable alternative to strip-mining in the southern West Virginia "coalfields."