| RACHEL MASSEY EDUCATION Bachelor of Arts Latin American Studies, University of Chicago, 1994 EXPERIENCE 2002-Present. Global Development and Environment Institute, Tufts University, Medford, MA. Research Associate, Economics for Health and the Environment. Provide research and writing support to environmental organizations working for health and environmental protection. 2001-Present. Institute for Science and Interdisciplinary Studies, Hampshire College, Amherst, MA. Research Fellow. Analyze and produce written responses to U.S. government documents on health and environmental implications of the "war on drugs" in Colombia; work with partner groups to add scientific voice to public debate on US policy in Colombia; give lectures and radio interviews on environment and health policy topics. 2001-2002. Clean Water Action; Lowell Center for Sustainable Production. Consultant (research, writing, and editing). Produced educational materials on environment and human health; developed strategies and research plans for multi-year Alliance for a Healthy Tomorrow project; helped to edit book on science and the precautionary principle. 2000-2001. Environmental Research Foundation, Annapolis, MD. Writer. Researched and wrote articles on environment and health topics for biweekly publication, Rachel's Environment and Health News. Research topics included hazards of agricultural genetic engineering; US-sponsored crop eradication programs in Colombia; US regulation of arsenic in drinking water; links between cancer and pesticide exposures. 2000. Massachusetts Public Interest Research Group (MASSPIRG), Boston, MA. Graduate Fellow, Toxics program. Responsibilities included coalition building and strategy planning for implementation of new citizen right-to-know provisions in Massachusetts law; facilitating citizen access to pesticide information; and representing environmental concerns to state agencies. 1999. Pesticide Action Network, North America Regional Center, San Francisco,
CA 1994–96. Center for Latin American Studies, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL. Associate Director. Solicited and managed major grants for general operations and country-specific projects; supervised staff of 4 to 7; managed budget; advised students; oversaw graduate research fellowships; allocated research and travel grants; directed scholarly exchange program with Cuba; organized conferences and lecture series. SELECTED PUBLICATIONS "Prospering with Precaution: Employment, Economics, and the Precautionary Principle," with Frank Ackerman, 2002. GDAE report produced with Alliance for a Healthy Tomorrow. Available at http://www.healthytomorrow.org/pdf/prosper.pdf. Comments submitted to US Congress regarding conditions established in Title II of the Foreign Operations, Export Financing, and Related Programs Appropriation Act 2002, with Jim Oldham, 2002. Available at http://amazonalliance.org/scientific/maold.pdf. "Health and Environmental Effects of Herbicide Spray Campaigns in Colombia," Institute for Science and Interdisciplinary Studies Occasional Paper (March 18, 2002), with Jim Oldham, 2002 "Collateral Damage: Environmental and Human Health Effects of the Drug War in Colombia" After the Fact (Winter 2002), with Jim Oldham. "The 'Drug War' in Colombia: Echoes of Vietnam," Journal of Public Health Policy Vol. 22 "Biotech: The Basics," (four-part series on genetic engineering in agriculture), Rachel's Environment and Health News and TomPaine.com, 2001. "Arsenic from your Tap," Rachel's Environment and Health News and TomPaine.com, 2001. "Children in Harm's Way," "Echoes of Vietnam," "Global Warming Opportunity," articles published in Rachel's Environment and Health News, October-December. 2000 ‘International Organizations and the Environment,’ edited essay series in Pamela Chasek, ed., The United Nations and the Global Environment in the 21st Century: From Common Challenges to Shared Responsibilities (New York: United Nations University Press), 2000. Coedited with Michael Doyle. Pesticide Research Updates (edited quarterly publication), 1999. ‘Refining the Race-to-the-Bottom Debate,’ Journal of Public and International Affairs Vol. 10. 1999 "Genetically Engineered Corn in Mexico: Cross-Border Threats, Cross-Border Responses"; "Expanding the Biotech Frontier: Seminis Vegetable Seeds"; "Casualties of the War on Drugs," with Elsa Nivia; "Constructing Alternatives: Costa Rican Workers and the Global Banana Trade," research articles published in The Global Pesticide Campaigner 1998-2000. ‘Impediments to Collective Action in a Small Community,’ Politics and Society Vol. 22, No. 3. 1994 SELECTED FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS Project Censored Award for Top Underreported Stories, 2003 LANGUAGES French (fluent), Spanish (fluent), German (competent); Portuguese (basic),
Russian (basic). |