Harriett founded the Institute for Soviet American Relations (ISAR) in 1982, which helped build civil society in the Soviet Union by supporting grassroots environmental groups for 20 years until Putin came to power. She attended Pitzer College and received their distinguished alumni award. She has a Master’s degree in Psychology from Temple University and has been trained as a Jungian psychoanalyst at the C.G. Jung Institute in Zurich. She worked as a mountaineering instructor for Colorado Outward Bound School and taught at Putney School in Vermont. She worked in the White House Office of Environmental Policy during the Clinton Administration. Harriett is a wildlife rehabilitator, and she stewards Fox Haven Organic Farm & Ecological Learning Center.