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Jacquelyn Zita who serves as WEI's volunteer Director of Operations and Education received the U of M Community Service Award for her outstanding work in developing and supporting the Women's Environmental Institute at Amador Hill. This is a very prestigious award and marks a long-deserved recognition. Professor Zita (Ph. D. Philosophy) teaches a number of environmental, health, and theory courses in the Department, including Biology of Women, Feminist Theory and Method, and Ecofeminism and Environmental Justice. She is currently devleloping a new course on Women, Farming, and Food Security and coordinating a graduate student/professor research project on Insect Cinema. This year she will be on sabbatical working at WEI and writing a book entitled, Material Girl in a Chemical World and finishing two anthologies, one of them a compilation of Dr. Vincent Garry's research on pesticides and human health entitled Caustic Spring: Pesticide Use In Minnesota.
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