{"id":2640,"date":"2012-05-01T19:57:01","date_gmt":"2012-05-01T23:57:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/contemporary-issues\/?page_id=2640"},"modified":"2012-05-22T04:04:40","modified_gmt":"2012-05-22T08:04:40","slug":"alternatives-to-globalization-about-us","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/contemporary-issues\/alternatives-to-globalization-about-us\/","title":{"rendered":"About Us"},"content":{"rendered":"

Katy Lindquist, Colby College ’14
\n<\/strong>Activism on Conflict Minerals in the Congo<\/p>\n

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\nKaty Lindquist is a sophomore Anthropology and Global Studies double major. \u00a0On campus, Katy is the research assistant for the Oak Institute for International Human Rights. \u00a0She is also involved with STAND (an anti-genocide activist group) and the Goldfarb Center for Public Affairs and Civic Engagement. \u00a0Her primary anthropological interests include: grassroots mobilization, human rights, conflict in Central Africa, and anarchist anthropology.<\/p>\n

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Allison Stitham, Colby College ’12
\n<\/strong>LGBTQ Rights in Uganda<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Allison Stitham is a senior Anthropology and
\nReligious Studies double major.\u00a0 She is
\ninvolved in a number of clubs on campus
\nranging from volunteer work to singing.\u00a0 Allie
\nworked last summer for a non-profit teen
\ncenter called CHEETA in Portland, Maine
\nwhich focused primarily on refugee and
\nimmigrant students.\u00a0 She will be volunteering
\nthis summer at both CHEETA and the local
\nhospital before she joins the company Readak
\nto travel and teach.\u00a0 Her primary anthropological
\ninterests include: gender and sexuality diversity,
\nhuman rights legislation, and the economic
\nburden of cultural practices\/rituals.\u00a0 <\/strong><\/p>\n

Daniel Kissinger, Colby College ’14
\n<\/strong>Occupy Wall Street<\/p>\n

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Daniel is a sophomore studying Anthropology, Women’s Gender and Sexuality Studies, and Cinema Studies from Edmonds, Washington.\u00a0 He is a member of Colby’s student run multicultural programming board (the Pugh Community Board) as well as a Steering Committee member of Colby’s all inclusive queer-straight alliance The Bridge.\u00a0 His primary anthropological interests lie in poststructural critiques of modernity, cultural studies, and the intersections of identity formation and politics and physical spaces.<\/p>\n

Sarina Strohl, Colby College ’14
\n<\/strong>Slab City<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Sarina is a sophomore Anthropology major at Colby College. \u00a0She is originally from Queens, New York. \u00a0On campus Sarina is involved in the Colby Culinary Society, Colby Conversations on Race, and Hillel. \u00a0Sarina’s primary anthropological interests include: kinship, food tradition, alternative living, and in-vitro fertilization politics. \u00a0She created a framework for her anthropological studies in high school with her classes on the theory of knowledge and epistemology.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Katy Lindquist, Colby College ’14 Activism on Conflict Minerals in the Congo Katy Lindquist is a sophomore Anthropology and Global Studies double major. \u00a0On campus, Katy is the research assistant for the Oak Institute for International Human Rights. \u00a0She is … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3398,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/contemporary-issues\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2640"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/contemporary-issues\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/contemporary-issues\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/contemporary-issues\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3398"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/contemporary-issues\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2640"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/contemporary-issues\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2640\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4351,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/contemporary-issues\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2640\/revisions\/4351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/contemporary-issues\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}