Louisiana Environmental and Climate Justice

2019 Petrochemical Landscape along
the ​Mississippi River

Abolitionist Ecologies
My research explores environmental, energy, and climate justice using critical race and feminist political ecology lenses. Broadly speaking, I am interested in race, place, gender, justice, and nature. My auto-ethnographic doctoral work titled “Post-Apocalyptic Environmental Politics: Women of Color, Climate Justice and State-Corporate Crime in Louisiana” investigates how Gulf Coast Black and Indigenous women navigate contradictory relationships with energy and petrochemical industries, resist environmental racism, and advocate for energy and climate solutions.

​I have conducted over two years’ worth of participant observation with various community-based organizations and conducted in-depth ecowomanist oral histories (2-5 hours each) with over 50 women of color in Gulf Coast Louisiana. My scholarship will ultimately help democratize environmental governance, diversify leadership within environmental policy and planning, and innovate feminist mixed methods in environmental sociology, geography, and feminist anthropology.

2019 March for Death Alley
​along Burton Lane

2019 NAACP Environmental Justice Workshop at Southern University in Baton Rouge

2019 World Forum on Climate Justice in Glasgow, Scotland