I am a researcher, writer, podcaster, educator, and amateur photographer with broad interests that coalesce around the intersection of human social, cultural, and political matters with environmental phenomena and matters. Currently, I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Geography and Environmental Science at Hunter College and Faculty in the Ph.D. Program in Earth and Environmental Sciences at the City University of New York Graduate Center.
I have previously had faculty appointments at University of Tennessee (Knoxville), Middle Tennessee State University, and the University of the West Indies (Jamaica). My scholarship and pedagogy combine insights from critical human geography, environmental sociology, critical race theory, and political ecology.
As a child I wanted to become a medical doctor, but increasingly found myself discussing news stories with my parents and writing essays outlining my opinion on sometimes quite random topics. In my sixth-form years of high school, a teacher challenged me to nuance my opinions with the vocabulary of Caribbean Social Theory. At the University of the West Indies I learned much of that vocabulary and graduated with a BSc in Geography and Geology in 2013. I completed a MS in Geography at East Carolina University (North Carolina) in 2015 and went on to earn a MA and PhD in Geography from Clark University (Massachusetts) in 2020.
I try to keep everyday ethics of care, radical kinship, and equity at the center of my work. An aspirational approach guides my work to clarify Black life as beautifully improvisational and just futures as possible.