Librarian note: There are other authors with the same name. This is Kate^^^Davies

Kate Davies, M.A., D.Phil., has been active on environmental health issues for 35 years in the U.S., Canada and the U.K. In the late 1970s, while completing a doctorate in biochemistry at Oxford University, she worked for Greenpeace and the Political Ecology Research Group on the health effects of low-level radiation exposures in uranium miners and other populations. In the mid-1980s, she set up and managed the City of Toronto’s Environmental Protection Office – the first local government environmental office in Canada. Moving to Ottawa in 1990, she established and directed a successful environmental policy consulting company – Ecosystems Consulting - which provided services to the Canadian federal government and international agencies.

Frustrated by the slow pace of social change, Kate decided to return to school to study the topic and in 2002, she graduated from the California Institute of Integral Studies with an M.A. in cultural anthropology and social transformation. Shortly after, she accepted a faculty position at Antioch University Seattle in the graduate program in Environment & Community and in 2007 she became director of its Center for Creative Change. She served in this role until 2010, after which she returned to her faculty position. As well as being core faculty at Antioch University Seattle, Kate is clinical associate professor at the University of Washington and teaches in the Northwest Center for Public Health Practice. She has also taught at colleges and universities in Canada and the U.K.

Over the years, Kate has served on the boards of directors of numerous environmental nongovernmental and governmental organizations in the U.S. and Canada, including:

U.S.
Collaborative on Health and the Environment - Washington
Curriculum for the Bioregion
Institute for Children’s Environmental Health
Sustainable Path Foundation
Washington Citizens for Resource Conservation
Washington Toxics Coalition

Canada
Canadian Environmental Assessment Research Council
Canadian Environmental Law Association
Canadian National Committee for the Scientific Committee on Problems of the Environment
Great Lakes United
International Joint Commission (Canada-U.S.)
Ontario Pesticides Committee
Ontario Environmental Assessment Board
Royal Society of Canada’s Global Change Program

Kate has authored or co-authored many articles and book chapters, op eds and reviews. She lives on Whidbey Island in Washington state with her husband George.