This interview has been edited for length and clarity.
Q: What initially got you interested in this work and where were you before
Amherst?
A: My experience at Hamilton College as an undergraduate student really opened
me up to the world of power, privilege and oppression, individual identities,
the complexities of those identities and the ways in which we have very
different lived experiences and realities. I ended up transitioning from being
pre-med to being what was called then a women’s st
