Doreen Stabinsky
Professor of Global Environmental Politics and International Studies

Doreen Stabinsky received a B.A. in Economics from Lehigh University in 1982 and a Ph.D. in Genetics from the University of California at Davis in 1996. From 1983-1986 she did graduate work in Botany at Humbolt State University. Doreen has held several positions with Greenpeace USA and Greenpeace International; she is currently a genetic engineering campaigner for Greenpeace International. Doreen has been active in activist and advocacy work around genetic engineering and environmental issues for almost twenty years. She served as co-director of the Campus Center for Appropriate Technology, Humboldt State University, Arcata, CA. in 1984. While in graduate school at UC-Davis she helped found three environmental organizations: the California Sustainable Agriculture Working Group, the National Campaign for Sustainable Agriculture, and the California Biotechnology Action Council. She served as the interim director of the latter organization in 1991. She also worked as a project coordinator for the Pesticide Action Network North America Regional Center from 1992-1994. In recognition of this work she was awarded a Switzer Environmental Fellowship in 1991. Doreen was also a member of board of directors of the Council for Responsible Genetics from 1991-2003. Doreen's research, activism, and advocacy has taken her all over the world. She has given invited public testimony before the Government of India, Genetic Engineering Approval Committee; the New Zealand Royal Commission Inquiry on Genetic Engineering; the Republic of the Philippines Senate Committee on Agriculture; and the Pontifical Council on Peace and Justice. Doreen has participated as an NGO observer and advocate in the development and implementation of the Cartegena Protocol on Biosafety, negotiated under the auspices of the UN of the Convention on Biological Diversity. She has attended and participated in over twenty UN negotiation sessions and meetings on five different continents. Doreen has published articles and reports in a range of publications, including: Race and Class, Human Environment, Journal of Environment and Development, Virology, and the Chronicle of Higher Education. She was co-editor, with Steven Brush, of Valuing Local Knowledge: Indigenous People and Intellectual Property Rights, Island Press, 1996. In 1990-2000, Doreen was awarded a Fulbright Fellowship for her project, "Contested knowledge, contested ownership: Struggles over intellectual property rights and rice in the Philippines." This fellowship enabled her to spend six months in the Philippines teaching and researching. Doreen joined COA as a permanent, half-time faculty member in 2001. At COA she teaches classes on global environmental politics, agriculture and biotechnology, international studies, the politics of the world trade organization, and a class on activism. Doreen is proficient in reading and writing French and Spanish. Her other interests include ultimate frisbee, cooking, and gardening.

Doreen's website: http://arcticsunrise.coa.edu/doreen/