Project Collaborator
Amy Lesen
Biography
Based in New Orleans, Dr. Amy Lesen is Professor of Environmental Leadership and Participatory Change at Antioch University. Amy is a scholar-practitioner who does climate, environmental, disaster, and health justice work in collaboration with coastal communities across the Gulf Coast, elsewhere in the U.S. Southeast, in the Caribbean, and beyond. She particularly values the arts as a way for people grappling with environmental challenges and health disparities to process and clarify their troubles, grief, goals, and decisions. A relational person, Amy loves collaborating across geographies, cultures, disciplines, and sectors of society. She strives to employ participatory and community-based methods with integrity and a strong ethical foundation. Amy is also part of the teaching faculty in the Disaster Resilience Leadership program at the Tulane University School of Social Work. She was formerly faculty at Dillard University, an Historically Black College in New Orleans, Tulane University, as well as the Pratt Institute in New York City.
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