Eileen O’Shaughnessy

Eileen O’Shaughnessy, MA, is a nuclear abolitionist organizer, educator, and musician. For over ten years, Eileen has taught courses on nuclear issues, environmental and racial justice, and gender studies at the University of New Mexico (UNM) and the Central New Mexico Community College (CNM) in Albuquerque. As a trained facilitator of Dr. Joanna Macy’s Work that Reconnects, Eileen weaves elements of Buddhism and deep ecology into the work of nuclear guardianship. She is completing a PhD in Educational Thought and Sociocultural Studies at UNM with a dissertation tentatively titled (Un)learning the Bomb: The Nuclear Contract & Public Pedagogy in New Mexico’s Nuclear Industrial Complex. As a professional musician, Eileen has also toured the U.S., Canada, and Europe with her original political folk band Eileen & the In-Betweens.