Education: Katie Rohrer graduated from Hampshire College in May of 2007 with a B.A. in Liberal Arts. Given the opportunity to design her own program of study, Katie's undergraduate career was somewhat of an interdisciplinary adventure that took her from cognitive neuroscience and development economics, through radical social theory and cultural anthropology. This experience culminated in a three month-long field study in Argentina where Katie interned with the Unemployed Workers' Movement of La Matanza- a grassroots neighborhood organization who have begun a multipurpose community center and free school in the heart of Buenos Aires'.

Experience: Katie has been involved in various comunity and grassroots orginasations for several years. She has worked in a range of areas from peace and relief work to advocacy of ecologically minded organizations. Katie grew up around small scale gardening and subsequently has considerable experience with organic farming, bioremediation, and permaculture.

I grew up in Scituate, Massachusetts, a small coastal suburb of Boston, swimming and sailing on the ocean and helping my parents with their organic vegetable garden from a very young age. I've been involved in various grassroots activist projects in recent years, both on and off the Hampshire College campus, most notably in the areas of anti-globalization and anti-oppression activity. In January through March of 2005, I traveled to New Orleans as a Hurricane Katrina relief worker, doing debris removal and bioremediation work on areas contaminated by toxic substances. During my experience at Hampshire, I worked at the farm center, helping to grow and harvest organic vegetables for the community-supported agriculture program.

 I currently reside in Easthampton, Massachusetts, and work for a small business. I plan to continue my academic career in cultural anthropology while furthering practices in sustainable/ecological living and anti-oppression activism.  I am invested in the project because I would like to participate in creating an alternative set of lifeways to those of the dominant western industrial paradigm, which alienate and estrange us from each other and our home, the planet. I want to work at helping to replace structures that are based on destruction, depletion and domination with those that are based on sustainability and mutual aid.