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Giovanna Di Chiro teaches in the environmental studies department at Mount Holyoke College and is the co-director of the Pioneer Valley Community Environmental Justice Coalition in western Massachusetts. Her work lies at the intersection of the fields of environmental justice, human geography, and political ecology. Her research examines the production and mobilization of “uncommon” environmental expertise by community activists from around the world whose community-based science blends scientific methods with locally generated environmental knowledge to address the environmental and health problems facing their communities. She has published widely in the areas of social activism and environmental justice and is an editor of the volume Appropriating Technology: Vernacular Science and Social Power, which consists of a series of case studies of marginalized communities’ use/appropriation of a range of technologies in their social and environmental change efforts. Di Chiro’s recent work, Tierras de Esperanza: Urban Ecologies of Latino New England, grows out of her ongoing collaborative exchanges with scholars and environmental justice activists in Puerto Rico and Puerto Rican diasporic communities in western Massachusetts.
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