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Speaking in DC at CleanTech in 2008. Leilani has given over 45 keynote speeches on the environment. She speaks about the issues we are facing as well as her journey from biology graduate to race car driver and environmental activist and why in life it’s good to be different.
contest for number 1, she felt that natural urge to compete. The winning driver came up to her and invited her to try racing. She went on to compete in several Saturday night short track races and the Alison legacy series - a scaled down version 3/4 stock car series. She completed her degree in biology. In 2002 she was racing the late model NASCAR league division. In 2006, while testing at Daytona she watched An Inconvenient Truth - planting the seeds for her environmental charge forward. A short time later a thread started on a NASCAR forum trashing her for being too political. It went back and forth but ultimately the verdict was that the thread was ungrounded 36 motorfestmagazine.com SUMMER 2012
in the process it exposed strong bias in NASCAR and racing in general - Lielani realized that by bringing environmentalism to the conversation she was addressing issues the majority of the fans were never exposed to. Bringing the Earths cause to NASCAR opened a conversation to the mainstream type fans in a way that had never been addressed before... In 2007 she ran an Indy car at Kentucky and Chicago, the later in 2009 the movie “The Cove” - film on Dolphin exploitation. The documentary touches on food, water and transportation issues that were moving to everyone who’s seen it but made a huge impact on Leilani, who decided to then promote the film on her race car.
Fueling change 2013 Sunoco’s contract ends and NASCAR sanctioning body will decide on a new fuel with even a higher level of bio based ethanol fuels - Leilani is a big proponent. She pointed . As you discover more on her site you’ll see a pattern emerge, one where big business is choking, starving and crushing the education of America and the world. Keeping the public dummied down makes them ripe for exploitation. The efforts of warriors like Leilani are giving the earth a second chance. As we learn we teach, as we teach we grow. For the Earth! More to learn at Leilanimunter.com, Grist.org, Thecovemovie.com