About

Environmental anthropologist with a passion for public scholarship

I hold a Ph.D. in Anthropology from Vanderbilt University. My research focuses on the intersection of political violence and environmental degradation. I have worked with Wayúu and Afro-descendant communities displaced by the Cerrejón Coal Mine in La Guajira, Colombia since 2013. As part of my ongoing commitment to social justice in the region, I am part of a network of solidarity activists who support local movements for a just post-coal future. I have served as a mediator and international delegation coordinator while conducting fieldwork. I am also a contributing member of the Ultimate Consequences database, documenting deaths during political clashes in Bolvia from 1982 to the present. I use digital humanities, traditional fieldwork, and community collaboration in all of my research.

I have published articles in Dialectical Anthropology, the Journal of Political Ecology, Urban Anthropology and Studies of Cultural System and World Economies, and The North American Congress on Latin America. I have received grants and fellowships from the National Science Foundation, The Mellon Foundation, Humanities Without Walls, the Society for Applied Anthropology, and the Robert Penn Warren Center.    

My pronouns are she/her/hers.