My curiosity, research, and creative practice intersect across geography, education, and art. This space brings together the maps, scientific inquiry, and artistic work I create and co-create with other academics, artists, communities, and individuals.

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I am an Assistant Professor in the Cultural Geography Group within the Environmental Sciences Group at Wageningen University & Research in the Netherlands. My research at the university centers on the spatial elements of hydrologic environmental disruption and community level knowledge and actions in response. For this I examine the role of water in geospatial processes, transboundary freshwater governance through a lens of love and relational epistemologies, local knowledge through community actions and response to environmental disruption, and how notions of the "local" as well as aspects of inclusion and exclusion are reconfigured through networks of care, mutual aid, and social justice. I am also interested in human expressions in art, fiber, and fashion as practices of climate resistance, forms of political expression and historical narrative, and question notions of sustainability.

Methodologically, I work across qualitative and quantitative approaches to data collection and data processing toward visual storytelling. I am trained as both an environmental scientist with focus on hydrogeology, and a water geographer with a focus on cultural geography and combine this with my visual art practice. I use mapmaking and satellite imagery for geospatial analysis, and groundtruth by conducting interviews, collecting archival documents, and photodocumenting. I prefer to build this research with communities using co-design and co-production methods. Theoretically, I lean toward feminist and Indigenous frameworks, employing feminist theories, relational epistemologies, Indigenous ontologies, more-than-human lenses, critical cartography, and complex systems analysis. I focus my time in geographies where Indigenous and other historically marginalized communities persist and confront colonial oppression in the form of "development"; where water transcends national and international boundaries in transboundary watersheds; where freshwater meets and mixes with the saltwater in coastal estuaries; and where tradition and culture intersect and inform science and technology. 

I am Principal Investigator of the projects Coastal Communities’ Responses to Environmental Disruption and Fiber & Fashion Resistance. I primarily supervise MSc and PhD students at Wageningen University and Amsterdam Metropolitan Solutions, and welcome inquiries from prospective MSc, PhD, and postdoctoral researchers interested in this work. I also coordinate and teach the course Geopolitics at the End of Time: Climate Change at Wageningen University & Research and am available to facilitate student-led initiatives of social justice actions.