About Holly Dygert, PhD
Holly Dygert, PhD, is a lecturer at Northeastern University and visiting scholar at Brown University. Her expertise is in gender and indigenous rights, economic development, conditional cash transfer (CCT) programs, community health, sexual and reproductive health, and youth. Dygert has conducted over 20 months of ethnographic research among Nuu Savi ("Mixtec") villagers in southern Mexico, and multiple shorter community-based projects in the United States. One of the latter—the Tidewater Communities Project—focused on the management of a contaminated brownfield site in a residential neighborhood in Pawtucket, Rhode Island. Dygert has provided students with opportunities to participate in this and other projects. Because of this, she was recognized in 2012 as a Presidential Engaged Scholar by Rhode Island Campus Compact.
