Full Name
Olivia Aguilar
Job Title
Leslie and Sarah Miller Director
Organization/School
Mount Holyoke College
Speaker Bio
Olivia Aguilar (she/her) is the Leslie and Sarah Miller Director of the Miller Worley Center for the Environment and an Associate Professor of Environmental Studies at Mount Holyoke College. Working with all factions of the college, she helps develop programming, curriculum and strategic planning on issues related to the environment, sustainability and climate justice. Her scholarship lies at the intersection of community, race and transformative learning in environmental education. Specifically, she examines how and why environmental and science learning communities are exclusive and how they can be more inclusive of groups historically marginalized. Her upcoming book, Remember, Resisting and Reimaging: A Latinx Outdoor Experience examines outdoor experiences from a Latinx perspective through the use of cuentos (stories) to help reimagine what it means to be “outdoors”.
Olivia Aguilar