Faculty

Marlene Gerber Fried, CLPP Director | mgfSS@hampshire.edu teaches philosophy at Hampshire College. Marlene founded the National Network of Abortion Funds and the Abortion Rights Fund of Western Massachusetts. She is currently on the board of both, as well as the Women’s Global Network for Reproductive Rights and the advisory board of Raising Women’s Voices. Marlene has written and lectured widely about abortion access and reproductive freedom and justice. She edited From Abortion Rights to Reproductive Freedom: Transforming a Movement, co-authored with Jael Silliman, Loretta Ross and Elena Gutiérrez, Undivided Rights: Women of Color Organize for Reproductive Justice, and co-authored the chapter on abortion in Our Bodies, Ourselves (2005).

Betsy Hartmann, PopDev Director | ehSS@hampshire.edu teaches development studies at Hampshire College. A longstanding activist in the international women’s health movement, Betsy writes and speaks frequently on the intersections between reproductive rights, population, immigration, environment and security concerns. She is the author of Reproductive Rights and Wrongs: The Global Politics of Population Control, and a political thriller about the Far Right, The Truth about Fire. She is co-author of A Quiet Violence: View from a Bangladesh Village and a co-editor of Making Threats: Biofears and Environmental Anxieties. With Joni Seager, she is co-author of the report Mainstreaming Gender in Environmental Assessment and Early Warning: Conceptual Challenges and Opportunities. Her novel Deadly Election was recently published by White River Press.