Hattie Wilder Karlstrom is a researcher and an activist. She joined the program from Amherst, Massachusetts by way of Annandale-on-Hudson. Hattie’s research interests centered on borders and the people they affect. Hattie was a 2020 participant in the Border Pedagogy Working Group and the recipient of a Watson Fellowship. Her thesis project is titled “We’re with the Church”: Religion and Humanitarian Aid along the U.S.-Mexico Border.” It took the form of a written academic thesis, intertwining academic and creative nonfiction writing.
