Hilary Booker, M.Phil

Biography
“If you have come to help me, you are wasting your time. If you have come because your liberation is bound up in mine, then let us walk together”
~Lila Watson, Aboriginal Activist

Hilary Booker is passionate about food sovereignty, food systems sustainability, and environmental justice in urban communities. She has been involved with community-based initiatives and advocacy around these issues at a number of different scales and locations.

Hilary uses radical geography to explore whether and how these types of initiatives contribute to social peace. She explores the ways in which the tension between theory and practice may offer spaces to decolonize the production and dissemination of knowledge—particularly around food. Her online interactive dissertation, 242food.com, is a resource for people working on food sovereignty issues in The Bahamas and beyond.

Hilary is Executive Director of the non-profit Growing Communities, Inc. She lives in Nassau, Bahamas, where she is working with several agencies to develop a sustainable agriculture training and education program at the national boys detention centre.

 

Educational History
Ph.D Student, Environmental Studies
Antioch University New England

M.Phil, International Peace Studies
Trinity College Dublin

B.A., Political Science/Global Studies
University of Delaware