Community Engagement

My work within and beyond academia centers community-driven questions, dialogue, and action for local and regional food system and environmental change. 

I have collaborated with community partners in Latin America, Southern Africa, and across the U.S. to develop relationships, conversations, and practices in support of community-identified goals. I bring over a decade of experience with community organizing and participatory processes. 

I also contribute a political ecology perspective, in which I recognize the power embedded in our agricultural and food systems and seek to build more equitable and place-based systems and practices. As both political ecologist and community-engaged scholar, I believe in the transformative practice of the communities we build and the stories we tell.