Lily Fessenden

Instructor and Division Director, Division of Environmental Studies (Audubon Expedition Institute)

Ph.D., California Institute for Integral Studies; M.S., Goddard College; A.B., Bowdoin College

(617) 349-8648
lfessend@lesley.edu

Lily Fessenden has been faculty for the Ecological Teaching and Learning and Environmental Education masters programs at Audubon Expedition Institute and now serves as division director. Her Ph.D. in the Humanities focused on transformative learning and change and her dissertation was a cooperative inquiry on the experience of interbeing. Lily has practiced her educational philosophy through homeschooling, teaching conflict management, and by serving on the boards of the Maine Earth Institute, PeaceAction Maine and the Center for Consensual Democracy. She was faculty and Executive Director of the Geocommons College Program, a study abroad experience focused on communities working towards a sustainable future. Lily also directed the Northeast Initiative, an outreach program of The White Mountain School helping secondary schools integrate sustainability into their school improvement efforts. Lily is currently involved in a sustainable living experiment on 172 acres in Searsmont, Maine.