Frances J. Riemer

Frances Julia Riemer is an educational anthropologist, feminist, and self-described traveler extraordinaire. She has worked and traveled in the US, Europe, East and

Southern Africa, the Middle East, Southeast Asia, and Latin America alone, as part of a team, a couple, a nuclear, and an extended family. Her ethnographic research focuses on change and issues of equity and access, gender, development and sustainable communities, and cultural difference and the social organization of community, school, and workplace. Dr. Riemer is a Fulbright scholar, and her work has been supported by the Spencer Foundation and the National Academy of Education. She organizes for progressive policies locally and nationally, and speaks on Women’s Suffrage, the ERA, and Gender and Climate Change.