Our Faculty
Sasha Kramer, Ph.D.
(Stanford University)
Professor
- sash@stanford.edu
- 305-284-6694
Sasha Kramer is an Adjunct Professor of International Studies and Visiting Scholar at the Center for Latin American Studies. An ecologist by training, Sasha Kramer is working to develop connections between the University of Miami and grassroots development organizations in Haiti, so that students will be able to apply their education to some of the most pressing social, environmental and economic issues in the western hemisphere, simultaneously enhancing their own educational experience and addressing the needs of under-served communities in Haiti.
In 2006, Dr. Kramer completed Ph.D. in Biological Sciences at Stanford University. Her dissertation, entitled Nitrogen, Microbes and the Human Predicament: the Ecology and Relevance of Nitrogen Recycling focused on human disturbance of the global nitrogen cycle and its impacts on the earth’s ecosystems. In 2007 she completed a Postdoctoral Research position with the Collaboratory for Research on Global Projects at Stanford, which included coordinating an ecological sanitation project in Haiti in collaboration with Stanford’s Engineers for a Sustainable World and several departments: Anthropological Sciences, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Biological Sciences and the School of Medicine.
Dr. Kramer has worked as an ecologist and human rights observer in northern Haiti since 2004. In 2006, she co-founded a non-profit called SOIL (Sustainable Organic Integrated Livelihoods www.oursoil.org), dedicated to supporting and promoting soil fertility in Haiti and forging collaborations between students and researchers in the United States and local community organizations in Haiti. She is also the co-founder of SOL (Sosyete Oganize pou Lanati), a Haitian non-profit dedicated to promoting environmental justice and ecologically sound development in cooperation with the US non-profit SOIL.
