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About Kyla Jagger Neilan

Kyla Jagger Neilan is a researcher, practitioner, and activist for social justice and food sovereignty.

She holds an MPA in international development from Cornell Uni­versity and a BA from Oberlin College in Third World studies, with minors in environmental studies and French. Kyla is the recipient of awards for gender and environmental research and fellowships from myAgro, the Cornell Institute of Pub­lic Affairs, and the Environment Ohio Research and Pol­icy Center. She has worked for Oxfam America, the United Nations World Food Program, Catholic Relief Services, and journalist Naomi Klein. Her research on women’s and farm­er’s organizations, with fieldwork in Mali, Ethiopia, and Tan­zania, focuses on gender and food systems at the margins, seeking to understand and be in solidarity with social move­ments for food sovereignty, agro-ecology, and global femi­nisms that address root causes of food crises, environmental racism, and gender-based violence. At home in Boston, Kyla lives in co-ops, goes to punk shows, and keeps a permaculture vegetable garden. Currently, Kyla is working with farmers in the Central African Republic to recover their livelihoods after conflict.

Over the course of more than a year, Kyla Jagger Neilan and Jeffrey Ashe worked closely together developing the majority of the book. The bulk of the research responsibilities fell to her, and in several cases she would interview Jeff before and throughout the drafting of several chapters. The collab­orative process made the book stronger as Kyla helped Jeff bring his experience to the page.

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Source: Ashe Jeffrey, Neilan Kyla J. In Their Own Hands: How Savings Groups Are Revolutionizing Development. Berrett-Koehler Publishers,2014. — 220 p.. 2014
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