- PhD student in the Transdisciplinary Leadership and Creativity for Sustainability program, University of Vermont
- Masters in Public Policy, with a focus on Poverty and Inequality from the University of Chicago
- BA, American Culture, University of Michigan
BIO
Martha Caswell's work focuses on community mobilization and pedagogy that considers whole systems and searches out the entry points for meaningful engagement. With a belief in the power of collective action, Martha is often a bridge between academic and community participants, working to establish reciprocal relationships that facilitate exchanges of knowledge and experience toward food systems transformation. Through a commitment to critical analysis and inviting in multiple ways of knowing, her research and teaching currently investigate power and possibilities within agroecological transformations. A connector by nature, Martha looks for the synergies and opportunities that are possible across constituencies, geographies, and experience.
Martha teaches on the Certificate for Graduate Studies in Agroecology and is engaging in various community efforts around political and popular education. She is also involved in a range of research programs including: agroecology transformations, territorial food systems, food sovereignty and more. Martha was a founding co-director of the Institute for Agroecology and continues to teach on the Certificate for Graduate Studies in Agroecology, while continuing work on several IfA research areas and engaging with various community efforts around political and popular education.
Courses
Transformative Agroecology (ALE 6110)
Area(s) of expertise
Transformative agroecology, food sovereignty, critical participatory action research (PAR), multiple ways of knowing and arts-based methods
Bio
Martha Caswell's work focuses on community mobilization and pedagogy that considers whole systems and searches out the entry points for meaningful engagement. With a belief in the power of collective action, Martha is often a bridge between academic and community participants, working to establish reciprocal relationships that facilitate exchanges of knowledge and experience toward food systems transformation. Through a commitment to critical analysis and inviting in multiple ways of knowing, her research and teaching currently investigate power and possibilities within agroecological transformations. A connector by nature, Martha looks for the synergies and opportunities that are possible across constituencies, geographies, and experience.
Martha teaches on the Certificate for Graduate Studies in Agroecology and is engaging in various community efforts around political and popular education. She is also involved in a range of research programs including: agroecology transformations, territorial food systems, food sovereignty and more. Martha was a founding co-director of the Institute for Agroecology and continues to teach on the Certificate for Graduate Studies in Agroecology, while continuing work on several IfA research areas and engaging with various community efforts around political and popular education.
Courses
Transformative Agroecology (ALE 6110)
Areas of Expertise
Transformative agroecology, food sovereignty, critical participatory action research (PAR), multiple ways of knowing and arts-based methods