Osha named one of "West Virginia's Wonder Women"
Appalachian women have always been strong figures. These women bring that mountain spirit to everything from technology and manufacturing to activism and law, in every part of the state. West Virginia Focus celebrates them—and expresses Great Expectations for their up-and-coming sisters.
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Irrepressible Activist
Since she co-founded the environmental nonprofit Aurora Lights in 1998, Jen-Osha Buysse has co-produced two compilation CDs and a website to raise funds and educate about the impacts of mountaintop removal mining. An irrepressible activist, she was a prominent coordinator in the emergency response to the January 2014 chemical leak in Charleston. The Yale Forestry grad and Switzer fellow now directs the Mountain Stewardship and Outdoor Leadership School opening in September 2014 in partnership with Morgantown Learning Academy.
