Kate
Harrison graduated with general and departmental honors
from Vassar College in 2000 with an independent major in
Environmental Conservation and Sustainable Development.
After school, she moved to Berkeley, CA where she worked in
environmental education and outreach for several
organizations including the East Bay Regional Park
District, The Jane Goodall Institute, and Pesticide Watch.
While in California, Kate wrote original curriculum and
delivered slideshow presentations to school children and
community groups in the Bay Area on a wide variety of
environmental topics. In 2002, she moved to Connecticut
where she worked for the legislative Environment Committee
in Hartford. She has also worked for the Senate Committee
on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry in Washington DC.
Kate now lives with her
husband Barry in New Haven, where she is finishing a joint
degree in Environmental Policy and Law at the Yale School
of Forestry and Environmental Studies and Pace Law School.
In December 2006, Kate began writing a column for Real
Estate Valuation Magazine Online entitled:
The
Environmentalist. Her piece “Organic
Plus: Regulating Beyond the Current Organic Standards”
is coming out in the next issue of the Pace
Environmental Law Review journal. Her first book,
The Green Bride Guide will be available from
Sourcebooks in December, 2008.
