I am a scholar, environmentalist, outdoorswoman, and writer. I work as an Assistant Professor of Environment and Sustainability at Western Colorado University. My teaching and research address questions at the intersection of environmental management and decision-making. As a social scientist, I respond to the knowledge and experience of my students and those I interact with when conducting research.
Within the Clark School of Environment and Sustainability, I teach multiple undergraduate classes, such as environmental justice, quantitative skills for climate action planning, and introduction to environment and sustainability. I also mentor master’s of environmental management students and teach a graduate-level environmental justice class.
My scholarship focuses on the requirements of environmental management, ranging from the incorporation of comments from public participation in federal lands management, to forestry education, to the organization of labor in seasonal outdoor positions. My current project explores decision-making within the contentious and unsustainable Wild Horse and Burro Program.
Interests
- Environmental Justice
- Settler Colonialism
- Social-Ecological Systems
- American West Forest and Rangeland Ecosystems
- Animal Studies
- Public Participation
- Environmental Management
- Labor
Education
- Ph.D. in Sociology, 2023, University of Oregon
- MS in Sociology, 2018, University of Oregon
- BA in Sociology, 2013, Humboldt State University