(born 1934) Citizen advocate against corporate America. Nader came to national attention with Unsafe at Any Speed (1965) which blamed automobile casualties on design rather than drivers and spurred federal safety legislation. Later campaigns by this austere Ivy League lawyer and his “Nader’s Raiders” have focused on food safety water pollution, environmental poisons and other issues of corporate negligence. Public Citizen (founded 1971) has inspired nationwide PIRGs (public-interest research groups), while the Center for the Study of Responsive Law maintains an active schedule of lobbying and information. Nader appeared on the presidential ballot for the Green Party in 1996 and 2000. Yet his chief work remains creating and informing the citizen consumer, thereby reforming the nation.