I am an Assistant Professor at the Center for the Sociology of Organisations, Sciences Po in Paris. Previously I was an Associate Professor of Justice, Community and Leadership at Saint Mary's College of California in the Bay Area.

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, we cannot talk about sustainability or decarbonization without a serious consideration of social justice, equity, and power relations. 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 grassroots organizations, policy-makers and practitioners.

New book- Recycling Class, MIT Press, 2024  (Open-Access here)