Diane Meyer Simon
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Diane Meyer Simon | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1946 (age 79–80) |
| Alma mater | B.A. Butler University |
| Known for | founder of Global Green USA |
| Spouse(s) |
N. Stuart Grauel (divorced) |
| Children | 3 |
Diane Meyer Simon (born Diane Irene Meyer) is an environmental and political activist, and the founder and leader of Global Green USA[1] and a member of the Green Cross International's (GCI) Honorary Board.[2] She is the former wife of Indiana real-estate billionaire Herbert Simon.[3]
She is from Nappanee, Indiana.[4]
Meyer was an only child, born in 1946 to a French father and a Swiss-French mother.[3] Her father worked as a teacher, a United States Air Force pilot, and medical doctor. Her mother worked as a teacher and a nurse.[3]
Simon earned a B.A. in psychology at Butler University in 1968.[3]
She has worked as an administrator and political staffer for liberal Democratic Senator Birch Bayh of Indiana.[3]
Simon also became Indianapolis's Woman of the Year in 1985.
She moved to California in 1989.
In August 1993, she went to Moscow to attend an international environment conference and met with Mikhail Gorbachev. After this conference, she joined the GCI's Honorary Board and founded Global Green USA as a U.S.-based affiliate of GCI.[2]