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PRSE Alumna ProfileLara Freeman
Lara, who studied anthropology, human biology, and environmental science at Emory University, came to HDS after a year of working for AmeriCorps in Atlanta, a year of teaching English to kindergartners through 12th-graders in South Korea, and a year of traveling that included working on an AIDS project in Uganda and participating in an ecological farming course in northern India. In addition, she has spent time in France, Israel, and Ecuador. This summer she's off to the National Outdoor Leadership School. "Traveling was such a formative time for me. A lot of my learning was experiential. It seemed like a lot of the problems that I saw with politics and economics came down to basic human problems, and I wanted to understand where people go to think about greed and love and compassion and just caring for your neighbor," the 27-year-old from Tampa, Florida, says in describing her path to HDS. Lara chose the Divinity School because she was looking for an academic program in religion and ecology, but she jumped into the PRSE during student orientation. It was "one of those opportunities that you don't get twice in a lifetime," she says, noting that she had known that at some point in her life she would want to teach. "I feel like social justice through public education is my ministry, to be a presence of love and pushing for justice." This fall, she'll be student-teaching biology at Lexington High School, where she hopes to complement the basic science of the classes with discussion of ethical and contemporary social issues. The approach hints at Lara's future in education: "I'd like to challenge how we divide disciplines and address ethical questions in society." Posted July 2005
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When Lara Freeman says that Earth is our greatest teacher, she means it in two ways—as an environmentalist and as a traveler.
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