I mua, ko Kathleen te Kaiwhakahaere o te Whare Hauora o Harvard me te Taiao o te Ao, i reira i whakawhanakehia ai e ia nga kaupapa hei whakaako i nga hapori mo te hononga i waenga i te hauora tangata me te taiao o te ao; i hanga he kaupapa here kai pai mo te paamu mo nga ratonga kai; me te whakaputa i tetahi aratohu ipurangi matawhānui mo te kai kai, te kai kaupeka me te tunu kai i te Rawhiti. Nana hoki i whakatu te Harvard Community Garden, te kari tuatahi o te Whare Wananga i whakatapua mo te hanga kai anake, i whakaputa e rua nga pakipūmeka whai tohu (Once Upon a Tide and Healthy Humans, Healthy Oceans,) me te tuhi tahi i te pukapuka Sustainable Healthcare (Wiley, 2013).
Na Kathleen ano i whakatu a Pleiades, he whakahaere mema e mahi ana ki te ahu whakamua i te mana rangatira o nga wahine i roto i te kaupapa oranga. Ka mau ia i te tohu Koiora mai i UC Santa Cruz me te Tohu Paerua o te Putaiao mo te Tuhituhi Putaiao mai i te Whare Wananga o Boston. He maha nga purongo me nga panui kua tuhia e ia, a, kua noho hei kaitohutohu mo nga momo whakahaere taiao me te hapori, tae atu ki te Poari Tohutohu Ahuwhenua a Sean Patrick Maloney me te Rōpū Mahi Ahuwhenua a Senator Kirsten Gillibrand.