I am a tenure track Assistant Professor in Justice, Community and Leadership at Saint Mary's College of California in the Bay Area. I am also affiliated with the Global and Regional Studies and the Earth and Environmental Science programs at Saint Mary's.  My research and teaching interests straddle the interconnected spheres of sustainability and social justice, applying participatory and ethnographic methodologies to study community-driven sustainability initiatives. I produce community-engaged scholarship that seeks to contribute towards a systemic transition to a more sustainable and just world for more people

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). I am on the executive board of the Global Research Forum on Sustainable Consumption and Production, a world-wide network of researchers and practitioners working on sustainability transitions. Previously, I worked as a program officer at the Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment, India, coordinating multiple research projects and organizing environmental education programs. In 2016, I received the Early Career Scholar Award from the Sustainable Consumption Research and Action Initiative.