Staff

Director

Betsy Hartmann is a Professor of Development Studies at Hampshire College and 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. See her website for other publications and information.
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Assistant Director

Katie McKay Bryson works with students in Hampshire's School of Critical Social Inquiry, and co-edits the free feminist article series, DifferenTakes. An activist and writer who grew up on occupied Athabaskan land in Alaska, she's worked on issues of environmental justice and military contamination in rural communities, as well as access to housing, education, and free legal aid. She’s spent eight years in the Northeast now, but still misses real smoked salmon and 20-hour summer days.
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Reproductive & Environmental Justice Fellow

Hampshire graduate Courtney Hooks is a former Reproductive Rights Activist Service Corps intern at HIPS (Helping Individual Prostitutes Survive), doula with The Doula Project, and legal advocate with Justice Now. She has helped start a syringe exchange program, collaborated with activists inside womens' prisons to create a guide about Hepatitis C & HIV, written about forced and coerced sterilization of people inside California women's prisons, and supported people giving birth, getting abortions, and going through miscarriage. She was also the co-coordinator of the 2010 From Abortion Rights to Social Justice conference.
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