A cultural anthropologist by training, I am interested in the relationships among people and plants in cities. My research involves interdisciplinary collaborations around considerations of how vegetal life in cities shapes human relations with nature, experiences of everyday life, and imaginaries for the future in a time of climate crisis. This work centres on three main themes. First, how the 'bad things in nature' affect human experiences, perceptions, and preferences for nature in cities. Second, the role of care for human and more-than-human beings in the maintenance of social-ecological-technological urban systems. Third, applications of feminist science and technology studies and critical infrastructure studies to the design, planning, management, and governance of nature-based solutions / green infrastructure for more just and inclusive urban futures. 

I co-coordinate the course Strategic Planning for Urban Nature and contribute teaching to the course Transformation Studio. 

urban space and place, more-than-human ethnography and geography, social-ecological-technological systems, diverse values of nature, care and social reproduction, nature-based solutions / green infrastructure, feminist science and technology studies, environmental justice, ecosystem services and disservices

Previous Positions:

2018–2021 Postdoctoral Research Fellow, The Earth Institute at Columbia University.