with

Kiran Asher
Author and Associate Professor
International Development & Social Change and Women's Studies
Clark University

Sunday, September 27, 2009
3:00 - 5:00 PM

WOLA
1666 Connecticut Avenue N.W.
Suite 400
Washington, DC  20009

Dr. Kiran Asher, Associate Professor of International Development and Social Change, and Women's Studies is an interdisciplinary scholar with training in the natural sciences and social sciences. Before arriving at Clark in 2002, she taught at Mount Holyoke College and Bates College and was a Rockefeller postdoctoral fellow at the Institute for Research on Women at Rutgers University. Dr. Asher has carried out conservation-related fieldwork in India, China, the USA, and various Latin American countries including Colombia. She has worked as a biodiversity consultant for the World Bank, and as a gender consultant for several Colombian NGOs. More recently, she did gender consulting for CARE-USA. 

Dr. Asher's "Black and Green: Afro-Colombians, Development and Nature in the Pacific Lowlands" (Duke University Press, 2009) is an ethnographic account of Afro-Colombian struggles for ethnic, territorial, and socioeconomic rights in the 1990s. Through analysis of the meanings of the terms "culture," "nature," and "development" as they relate to the Colombian government and Afro-Colombian social movements, Asher explores how development processes and social movements shape each other.  

Please RSVP to Rachel Robb at (202) 797-2171 or rrobb@wola.org
by September 24.