Fall Colloquium Begins with Tammy Lewis on Greening Ecuador

Welcome back, everyone! Join us for our first colloquium this fall–  Thursday 11 September at 5:30 in the Science Center (Room 4102 at the Graduate Center) with Tammy Lewis. Tammy L. Lewis is Director of Macaulay Honors College at CUNY/Brooklyn College, Professor of Sociology at Brooklyn College, and Professor of Sociology and Earth & Environmental Sciences at the Graduate Center. Greening Ecuador: International Funding and the Rise, Fall and Revision of Ecuador’s Environmentalism, 1978-2013 Transnational environmental funding has significantly affected Ecuador’s national environmental organizations, including non-governmental organizations and social movement actors (together “environmentalists”). Non-governmental environmental organizations’ strength ebbs and flows in tandem with …

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