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).

In addition to my research, I work with community organizations and provide guidance to policymakers who aim to reshape urban planning and consumption practices through  institutional reform.   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.  To this end,   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.   

Coming soon- Recycling Class, MIT Press, 2024