I conduct research that bridges storytelling, grassroots action, and critical science to advance change in our food systems, communities and local economies, and our environments.
I am deeply invested in research processes and methodologies that facilitate more equitable and engaged university-community partnerships and knowledge production.
How can our universities be better collaborators with the communities in which they are situated? Do our collaborative research questions and processes create community dialogue and shift power toward just, community-driven change?
I learn from and build on methods and insights from political ecology, agroecology, environmental justice, food studies, critical feminist scholarship, and community-engaged scholarship to explore these questions and themes.