Carrie DIEHL-MERRITT's Page

What issues are most important to you?

Social and Economic Justice

What kind of social activism do you engage in?

Fair Trade Amherst

What organizations do you love or work with?

Heifer International, PETA, Fair Trade Amherst

What books, music, films, etc. do you think educate and empower women?

Anything by Adrienne Rich

Career: what do you do or want to do?

Work with female coffee farmers in South America

What skills and interests to do you have to offer to others in the Red Tent Women's Project communty? This is your chance, so sell yourself!

I'm a student, so I'm looking for people to bounce research ideas with, to find other like-minded woman interested in change.

What would you like other members of this community to know? About yourself, about the world...anything (try not to be profane, though)!

Im just a happy go lucky student who wants to use my education to help others, that's really it.

What was your "women really matter and I'm going to do something about it" moment?

When I took a women's studies class over the summer and changed my major. I likened women to this poor little squirrel who had just been badly injured by a car- how we as women have been mistreated. If we are injured, we need each other and that's what I want to do- recreate collective community.