I am an Associate Professor of Justice, Community and Leadership at Saint Mary's College of California in the Bay Area, where I teach courses on environmental justice, sustainability and development through the lenses of postcolonial/decolonial theory, feminist geography and cultural sociology.
I received my PhD from the Department of Environmental Science Policy and Management at the University of California Berkeley (2015) and have a Masters in Integrative Bio-sciences from the University of Oxford (2008), where I was an Inlaks Scholar. In Spring 2019, I was invited to the Alba Viotto Visiting Professorship in Sociology at the University of Geneva, and was a visiting professorial fellow at the Sustainable Consumption Institute at the University of Manchester. I serve as an Associate Editor for Elementa: Science of the Anthropocene (UC Press) and Consumption and Society (Bristol University Press).
Beyond research, I collaborate with community organizations looking to transform spatial planning and consumption practices in cities through policy advocacy and institutional change. I am an Associate Fellow at Chatham House's Environment and Society Program and was a Commissioner on the Cambridge Sustainability Commission report on Scaling Behavior Change.
In a time of exacerbating inequality, enduring poverty and widespread climate disruption, I firmly believe that we cannot talk about sustainability or decarbonization without a serious consideration of its intersections with social justice, equity and oppression. I take a situated, relational and intersectional approach in my research, collaborating with scholars in critical geography, sociology, environmental science and policy studies, and with community organizations, policy-makers and practitioners.
I received my PhD from the Department of Environmental Science Policy and Management at the University of California Berkeley (2015) and have a Masters in Integrative Bio-sciences from the University of Oxford (2008), where I was an Inlaks Scholar. In Spring 2019, I was invited to the Alba Viotto Visiting Professorship in Sociology at the University of Geneva, and was a visiting professorial fellow at the Sustainable Consumption Institute at the University of Manchester. I serve as an Associate Editor for Elementa: Science of the Anthropocene (UC Press) and Consumption and Society (Bristol University Press).
Beyond research, I collaborate with community organizations looking to transform spatial planning and consumption practices in cities through policy advocacy and institutional change. I am an Associate Fellow at Chatham House's Environment and Society Program and was a Commissioner on the Cambridge Sustainability Commission report on Scaling Behavior Change.
In a time of exacerbating inequality, enduring poverty and widespread climate disruption, I firmly believe that we cannot talk about sustainability or decarbonization without a serious consideration of its intersections with social justice, equity and oppression. I take a situated, relational and intersectional approach in my research, collaborating with scholars in critical geography, sociology, environmental science and policy studies, and with community organizations, policy-makers and practitioners.
