Don Fitz received his Ph.D. in 1974 from the University of Texas at Austin and has published research on social and community psychology in multiple psychology and evaluation professional journals. He has taught a variety of psychology courses at the University of Texas at Austin, Austin Community College, Valparaiso University, Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville, the University of Missouri – St. Louis, Maryville University in St. Louis, Harris-Stowe State University, St. Louis Community College at Meramec and Forest Park, Fontbonne University and Washington University in St. Louis. Dr. Fitz was a Research Psychologist for 25 years at St. Louis State Hospital.

With David Roediger, Fitz edited Within the Shell of the Old: Essays on Workers' Self-Organization, (Charles H. Kerr Publishing Company, 1990). His chapter in that collection focuses on interviews with Spanish longshoremen who describe the bottom up structure of their union.

Fitz also edited Dioxin, The Orange Resource Book (1995) which describe the extreme dangers of that poison and organizing efforts to defend communities from it.

For over 20 years he produced the show Green Time in conjunction with KNLC-TV in the City of St. Louis and was editor of the Compost-Dispatch newsletter, published for the Green Party of St. Louis. Fitz has coordinated several labor and environmental gatherings in St. Louis.

In 1981 he was one of the founding editors of Workers’ Democracy, which became Regeneration in 1991, Synthesis/Regeneration in 1993, Green Social Thought in 2013 and continues with that name as a current online publication.

Don Fitz is author of Cuban Health Care: The Ongoing Revolution (Monthly Review Press, 2020).
The book is based on his interviews with dozens of Cuban medical personnel and students at the Latin American School of Medicine.

Fitz visited Cuba nine times and interviewed dozens of Cuban medical students and personnel.

Cuban Health Care documents how medicine in Cuba adapted since the 1959 revolution until the 2020s, when it has a longer life expectancy and lower infant mortality rate than the US while spending less than 10% per person annually of what the US spends.

Don Fitz has published a series of articles on the Cuban medical system in Monthly Review, Z Magazine, and Green Social Thought, as well as several online publications.

His most recent articles explore improving the quality of life while reducing energy production in the rich world. Don Fitz writes for and is on the Editorial Board of Green Social Thought.

Active in his own community, Fitz cohered a 2008 signature-gathering campaign which forced an audit of the City of St. Louis. He is on the Board of the University Heights Neighborhood Association and conceptualized and headed the 2015 campaign for Proposition H, which significantly slows over-development in University City (MO) and protects historic buildings by obtaining 69% of the vote.

After his home was severely damaged by the flood of July 26, 2022, he became chair of the Flood Task Force of University Heights Association.

Don Fitz has been a Green Party member since 1990. He was the Missouri Green Party candidate for Governor (2016), State Auditor (2018) and St. Louis County Assessor (2020). He is the Outreach Coordinator for the Green Party of St. Louis.

In addition to research on social and community psychology published in academic journals, Don Fitz has had articles in …
AlterNet, Black Agenda Report, The Bullet, Climate & Capitalism, Communist News, Countercurrents, CounterPunch, Dinâmicas Sul-Sur, Dissident Voice, Earth Island Journal, The Ecologist, Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting, Green Left, Green Pages, Green Social Thought, Grist, ideas and action, Janata Weekly, La Estiba: Voz de los Puertos, Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal, London Left Green Blog, MLToday, Monthly Review, Mother Pelican, MROnline, MRZine, Nuclear Monitor, Occupied Tucson Citizen, Occupy Monsanto, openDemocracy, Orinco Tribune, Radical America, Resilience, Revolutionary Strategic Studies, Synthesis/Regeneration, System Change Not Climate Change, teleSUR, Toward Freedom, TruthOut, UpsideDownWorld, Workers Democracy, Z Magazine, ZNet, Houston Chronicle and St. Louis Post-Dispatch.

Don Fitz enjoys working in his garden and preparing food for his family which is free of pesticides and genetic contamination. He likes to bike, write, and participate in community, state, national and international green politics.

For Don Fitz general campaign, press, or finance inquiries, please use the contact info below:

Phone: 314-437-9520

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