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Peggy
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Peggy Douglas is an economics professor at Baker College and a dual resident of Knoxville and Jamestown, Tennessee. For the past 28 years, she has been a college professor and community organizer in Sustainable Economics and Peace studies in colleges such as the University of Tennessee, Antioch College, West Virginia University, Livingstone College, and the University of Londrina in Brazil. She has also conducted research on indigenous education and sustainable agriculture in Peru, Costa Rica, and Brazil.
In 2009, Peggy has been published in the Kakalak Anthology of Carolina Poets, Knoxville Writers’ Guild poetry anthology, Bleeding Hearts; Glass: A Journal of Poetry; the University of Maine’s Binnacle Poetry Journal; Maypop Poetry Journal of the Tennessee Writers’ Alliance; Chantarelle's Notebook, The Light of Ordinary Things, Poetry Anthology by Fearless Books, and NOW & THEN: The Appalachian Magazine (forthcoming).
Her current and past professional associations include:
• Member, Knoxville Writers
Guild and Tennessee Writers Alliance. 2009- Present.
• Facilitator, Poetry Workshop of Knoxville Writers Guild. 2009- present.
• Volunteer, Rehabilitation Services, NC State Prison for Women. 2005-2008.
• Screener, Peter Taylor Literary Prize for the Novel. 2002.
• Volunteer, Morgantown, WV Sexual Assault Center. 2000-2001.
• Steering Committee, Morgantown WV Race Relations Taskforce, 1998-1999.
• Member, West Virginia State Taskforce on Disability Concerns. 1997-1999.
• Board of Directors, Caritas AIDS Hospice Inc. Northern West Virginia.
1997-1999.
• Member, WVU Council on African African-American Concerns. 1997-1999.
• Member, WVU Council for Women’s Concerns. 1997-1999.
• Member, WVU Council for Disability Concerns. 1997-1999.
• Board of Directors, AIDS Response Knoxville, TN-1996
• Executive Committee, Tennessee Environmental Council. 1992-95
Peggy’s hobbies include gardening, hiking in the Big South Fork, reading, working on two houses with her partner, and mothering and grand-mothering many beautiful children and their babies.
