My environmental research builds bridges between academic, activist, philanthropic, and climate policy communities.
My doctoral research at the University of California, Berkeley explored how Gulf Coast Black and Indigenous women within Louisiana's river and bayou parishes navigate contradictory relationships with energy & petrochemical industries, reimagine emergent kinship networks, and resist state corporate crime and environmental violence. By exploring multi-scalar strategies of everyday resistance, my environmental research engages questions of environmental governance through just transitions while advocating for abolitionist environmental, energy, and climate justice. I also innovate feminist mixed methods through the development of ecowomanist (auto)ethnography (EWAE) as methodological intervention.
My postdoctoral work at the Northeastern University School of Law historicized opportunities and challenges for the transnational ecofeminist coalition, The Feminist Agenda for a Green New Deal. My research fellowship at the Harvard University Center for the Environment (HUCE) through the Salata Institute for Climate & Sustainability explored how Afro-diasporic communities and women of color 1. navigate the oppression/privilege nexus at UNFCCC climate policy spaces (i.e. Bonn and COP), 2. advocate for feminist climate justice through the Gender Action Plan (GAP), and 3. attempt to build transnational solidarity across a false Global North/Global South binary through the UN Women and Gender Constituency (WGC).
My future scholarship will create and curate an Ecowomanist and Afrofuturist Digital Archive and Social Lab.
My doctoral research at the University of California, Berkeley explored how Gulf Coast Black and Indigenous women within Louisiana's river and bayou parishes navigate contradictory relationships with energy & petrochemical industries, reimagine emergent kinship networks, and resist state corporate crime and environmental violence. By exploring multi-scalar strategies of everyday resistance, my environmental research engages questions of environmental governance through just transitions while advocating for abolitionist environmental, energy, and climate justice. I also innovate feminist mixed methods through the development of ecowomanist (auto)ethnography (EWAE) as methodological intervention.
My postdoctoral work at the Northeastern University School of Law historicized opportunities and challenges for the transnational ecofeminist coalition, The Feminist Agenda for a Green New Deal. My research fellowship at the Harvard University Center for the Environment (HUCE) through the Salata Institute for Climate & Sustainability explored how Afro-diasporic communities and women of color 1. navigate the oppression/privilege nexus at UNFCCC climate policy spaces (i.e. Bonn and COP), 2. advocate for feminist climate justice through the Gender Action Plan (GAP), and 3. attempt to build transnational solidarity across a false Global North/Global South binary through the UN Women and Gender Constituency (WGC).
My future scholarship will create and curate an Ecowomanist and Afrofuturist Digital Archive and Social Lab.
2011 Harvesting Hibiscus at Truly Living Well Urban Farm with the Eta Zeta chapter of Gamma Sigma Sigma National Service Sorority Inc.
2015 UCB Urban Ethnobotany Research Project
Posters left in front of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) at the 2017 People's Climate March in Washington, DC
2019 Baton Rouge Protest for Cancer Alley
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2019 Community Conversation on Climate Change at Global Green Center in Lower 9th Ward, New Orleans
(pictured left to right: Ms. Marlene Pete (Sankofa), Ms. Cynthia Guillemet (Community Researcher & Lower Nine Homeowner Association), Ms. Kim Chapital (Deep South Center for Environmental Justice), Ms. Angela Chalk (Water Wise Gulf South & Healthy Community Services), Ms. Marilyn Amar (Gordon Plaza Resident and Community Activist) and Ms. Frances Roberts-Gregory (Ecowomanist
Ethnographer))
2019 UNFCCC COP25 in Spain
2020 Fieldwork in New Orleans, LA
2022 UNFCCC COP27 Press Conference in Egypt
2019 ISeeChange Rain Gauge Citizen Science Project in New Orleans
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2021 UNFCCC COP26 in Glasgow
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