Teresa Healy is Associate Professor and Chair of the Sustainable Development program at SIT Graduate Institute, Brattleboro VT. Teresa earned her doctorate in political science from Carleton University. Her research focuses on social movements’ struggles for equity and community-based sustainability in times of economic crisis.
Teresa worked as a senior researcher within the Canadian labour movement and held academic posts in the fields of international political economy and North American integration. Currently, she is involved in an ongoing research project on economic restructuring and diverse women in northern Canada. Healy has recently published an article on the Canada-EU free trade agreement and is completing a participatory action research project with immigrant workers whose factory closed suddenly in Ontario. She is also a recording singer-songwriter. Teresa’s book, Gendered Struggles against Globalisation in Mexico, was published by Ashgate in 2008. Teresa Healy is also Adjunct Research Professor at the Institute for Political Economy, Carleton University.