Giovanna Di Chiro is a Research Associate in the Environmental Studies Department at Mount Holyoke College. She has published widely on the intersections of gender, race, scientific expertise, and environmental justice. She is co-editor of the volume Appropriating Technology: Vernacular Science and Social Power (University of Minnesota Press) and is completing a book titled Embodied Ecologies: Science, Politics, and Environmental Justice. Di Chiro is co-founder of the Pioneer Valley Community Environmental Justice Coalition and collaborates with environmental justice organizations to conduct community-based research on environmental health disparities in the low-income communities of Western Massachusetts.
