Meet the Workshop Presenters

Amy Oliver is program coordinator of the Population and Development Program at Hampshire College. Her background includes advocating for low income families and survivors of domestic abuse. She is currently working on her Master's of Education at Cambridge College and is interested in linking social justice work with elementary education.

Karen Lennon works with the Department of Nutrition at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst, conducting health literacy research and nutrition education. She is a doctoral candidate in the Education Policy, Research and Administration Program at UMass. Research interests include critical pedagogical theories, community health and nutrition, feminist political ecology, and post-colonial theories. She worked continually in Bolivia from 1990 - 2000, in areas of rural community health and education; indigenous women's cooperatives; food security issues and gender programs. She has worked for the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization and several non-governmental organizations. Karen's doctoral research and on-going field work involve nutrition and environmental education in Bolivia.