keith snow is a journalist, photographer, engineer, educator, performer and naturalist. He has researched, traveled, lived and documented certain of the social, political, environmental and spiritual realities in 34 countries.
In 1988-1989 he was elected Chapter Chairman of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Microwave Theory & Techniques and Antennas & Propagation Societies, Syracuse, New York. In 1989 he received an award for exemplary management of a joint program with Hughes Aircraft Company, developing electronic warfare components for bomber applications. He has four research publications in the journals of the IEEE.
Traveling by mountain bicycle in late 1989, he experienced Thailand (from Chiang Mai to Ko Tarutao Marine Park). In 1990, he bicycled the De-militarized zone of the Koreas. Seeking out remote and untraveled passageways, he later crossed India (via Sikkim, Darjeeling, Katmandu, Banares, Delhi, Jaisalmer, Diu, and Bombay).
In 1990 and 1993, keith worked as an English Teacher in Tokyo, teaching all levels and age groups, responsible for highly structured classes with several of Japan's top language schools, for in-house classes at Japanese corporations, and privately for Japanese families. He also worked in Tokyo as a model and TV actor. While in Japan, keith traveled, mostly by mountain bicycle, to rural areas of Honshu and around the northern island of Hokkaido.
In 1992 he worked as a dental assistant for the United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR), serving Vietnamese refugees suffering from acute oral infections, at the Tai A Chau Island detention facility, in Hong Kong.
In 1993 he worked as a researcher for the Department of Environment and Natural Resources in the Philippines (1993), investigating and documenting conservation and development issues for the Saint Paul's Subterranean River National Park, its terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems, and the concomitant agricultural, transmigration and tourist impacts. He also traveled to peninsular Malaysia and Sumatra in 1993, to explore wildlife, forestry and human population issues.
keith has investigated the species survival issues of felids (the Asiatic lion of the Gir Wildlife Sanctuary, India, the South Asian tigers, cats of Africa, and the Iriomote wildcat of Japan); rhinos; crocodiles; and certain primates. He has investigated deforestation, pollution, and global climate mayhem. He has worked to support the cultural survival and autonomy of indigenous people.
A member of the Society of Environmental Journalists, keith has researched and investigated issues of population, technology, public health, wildlife, natural resource scarcity and control, colonialism, arm proliferation, covert military operations, human rights, female sexual autonomy, and, as related to all of these, the bias, propaganda and censorship of the western media.
In 1991 he exposed embezzlers skimming parks fees from the Serengeti National Park and Ngorongoro Conservation Area in Tanzania. In 1993, he documented illegal logging in the Asia-Pacific region. He has exposed illegal wildlife smuggling operations in Tokyo, in 1993, and in Nicaragua, in 1995. In 1995 he investigated the death of three Costa Rican environmentalists, in Costa Rica, for Friends of the Earth, USA, and the Rainforest Action Network. In 1997 he documented the illegal wildlife trade in West Africa.
Travelling independently to Ghana, Burkina Faso, Niger, Gabon, Cameroon, Benin and Togo, in 1997, keith investigated the operations of multinational corporations, the mechanics of dictatorship, and the concomitant environmental and human rights abuses. In the Benin Republic, keith met the exiled leaders of the Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People, in an effort to support their struggle, for environmental and political rights to self -determination and resource defense, in the oil-producing areas of the Niger River Delta, Nigeria.
In 1998, keith worked as a discrimination tester for the Holyoke (MA) Project Against Discrimination. He traveled to Germany and the Czech Republic to research an article on Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, and on the Buchenwald concentration camp. He presented a paper at the Sixth Annual African Studies Consortium workshop sponsored by the University of Pennsylvania. He worked as a substitute high school teacher, and with the Student Hosteling Program, leading educational bicycle trips for teenagers. He also worked in outdoor education in 1995, leading a Summer Outdoor Employment Program for teenagers from depressed rural areas.
keith regularly supports campaigns for wilderness defense, social justice, and, peace. He continues to investigate the western link to violence in Africa, especially Nigeria, Rwanda and Zaire. Offering a multimedia presentation designed to inform, challenge and awaken consciousness, keith lectured and/or performed throughout 1998. His current explorations revolve around consciousness, spirituality, history and truth.
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