PopDev

= Population and Development Program (PopDev)  =

For People, Environment, and Justice
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About
The Population &amp; Development Program brings a global feminist analysis to the intersecting fields of reproductive freedom, environmental justice, international development and peace.

We collaborate with CLPP to host the annual activist conference, From Abortion Rights to Social Justice: Building the Movement for Reproductive Freedom.

Contact Us
Website: http://popdev.hampshire.edu Email:    popdev@hampshire.edu

Mailing List: Extension: 5506

Office: G17

Who you'll find in our office:

Betsy Hartmann is the Director of the Population and Development program and Professor of Development Studies at Hampshire College. A longstanding activist in the international women's health movement, she writes and speaks frequently on the intersection of reproductive rights, population, environment, and security issues. Her books include Reproductive Rights and wrongs, the co-edited anthology Making Threats: Biofears and environmental Anxieties, and the recent political thriller Deadly Election. For more on Betsy, visit her website.

Katie McKay Bryson is PopDev's Assistant Director. An Alaskan environmental justice activist and Hampshire College graduate, she has also worked in the fields of housing access, free legal aid, and higher education.

Courtney Hooks is the Reproductive &amp; Environmental Justice Fellow at PopDev. A recent Hampshire graduate whose Division III (senior thesis) research took her to Havana, Cuba (for the second time), she's explored her passion for reproductive justice through internships with the Prison Birth Project, Justice Now, and Helping Individual Prostitutes Survive; as well as working as a full spectrum doula with The Doula Project and co-coordinating the annual activist CLPP conference on campus. Courtney currently supervises ten brilliant Five Colleges students through PopDev's paid political writing internship.

Events
Bridging Movements to Build Climate Change

PopDev is collaborating with three other national climate, environmental, and reproductive justice-centered organizations to host a national convening on Bridging Movements to Build Climate Justice. The convening will be held at the Pocantico Conference Center from October 20-22, 2011.

Film Series

Annual Activist BBQ

From Abortion Rights to Social Justice: Building the Movement for Reproductive Freedom Conference ' '

In the past, the workshops we have hosted and organized have included:

[Climate Change Roundtable]

[Indigeneous People's Caucus]

[Food Justice]

Links
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