I (she/her) am a full-time PhD student in Geography at the University of Washington studying the intersections between food systems, climate change, and Indigenous self-determination in the Arctic. I am of mixed Mexican-Mestiza-Irish-French heritage and have an interdisciplinary background in environmental science, marine policy, science communication, Arctic studies, and Indigenous studies. I hold an MMA from the UW School of Marine and Environmental Affairs (2022) and a certificate from the UW Center for American and Indigenous Studies (2022). Since 2020, I have served as a Research Assistant for Polar Science at a Human Scale and the Kivalina Sea Ice Project.
Currently, I am partnering with Search and Rescue volunteers in Kivalina, Alaska to increase organizational capacity and support climate change adaptation priorities (as determined by community members). I have also engaged in work in Inuit Nunaat (Ilulisaat, Greenland) and Sápmi (Inari, Finland). My work has been published with The Nature Conservancy, the Program on Climate Change, UW College of the Environment, and Macmillan Publishers. Upcoming projects include short films about Iñupiat food sovereignty and Greenlandic Inuit fisheries management, as well as a study centering the multiple and overlapping roles of women hunters in Arctic Indigenous communities.
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