My research focuses on climate change, Indigenous sovereignty, and the sociology of environmental justice
Yale Center for Environmental Justice
As a Yale Environmental Justice Fellow, I delivered a 30-page Forest Trends & Strategies report to the Yurok Tribal Council. My research leveraged peer-reviewed literature and Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK) to strategize pathways for climate-resilient forests, carbon project income, Tribal circular economies (bioenergy, wood products, etc.), and ancestral land re-acquisition.
Dr. Justin Farrel’s Lab for Western Lands & People
I work with Dr. Kyle Whyte and a team of Native scholars to support Tribal data-sovereignty and research compensation pathways for Tribes practicing regenerative agriculture and carbon sequestration.
I am also analyzing and mapping suicide data across US National Parks to support Dr. Justin Farrell’s research on death, cults, and the sociology of mental health in the American West.
Yale Program on Climate Change Communication (YPCCC)
With the YPCCC, I researched the sociology of climate change using data-science and spatial mapping.