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Teaching and Mentorship
I teach courses on the politics of environment, food, and justice, including, Environment and Society; Radical Environmental Movements; Race, Class, and Environmental Justice; Green Cafe; Researching Women, Water, and Justice; Feminist Theory and Environmental Justice; Sociology of Food; and, Sociology of Knowledge and Food Systems. I engage community-based learning and applied sociology throughout my teaching.
Outside of the classroom, I enjoy advising students on a variety of academic and professional endeavors. I recently served as a research mentor through the Undergraduate Collaborative Research Fund at Middlebury College. Here, I also organized and co-sponsored campus events with the Women of Color and Distinguished Men of Color student groups, including a DAPL Teach-In and an event on the racialization of food. Previously, I was a mentor with the University of Michigan’s Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program and the American Sociological Association's Environmental Sociology Section.
Outreach
In addition to employing community-based learning in my teaching, I advance my applied scholarship through collaborations with my partners in research; together, we aim to develop practical outputs from my analyses that are of more direct use to their communities. Following a working session with the Navajo Nation Breastfeeding Coalition, for example, I summarized my data into a breastfeeding peer counselor support statement distributed to the Navajo Nation Women, Infants, and Children program, Northern Navajo Medical Center, and key decision-makers ahead of the vote on the (now adopted) Resolution on breastfeeding of the NAABIK’ ÍYÁTI’ Standing Committee of the 23rd Navajo Nation Council. I have also shared institutional supports to assist with the Coalition's 2018 and 2019 World Breastfeeding Month celebrations and an indigenous doula training held on the Navajo Nation (Diné Bikéyah) in 2019. Additionally, throughout 2019, as part of our pilot WE-RISE (Water and Environmental Research for Infants' Safe Eating) study, the African American Breastfeeding Network and I supported local health workers in research and training, and we produced an annotated bibliography of existing research on infant feeding during water contamination crises to support lead elimination activists, at the particular request of members of the grassroots Coalition on Lead Emergency, based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
Service
I currently Chair the Teaching and Mentorship Award Committee for the American Sociological Association's Environmental Sociology Section. I recently concluded my tenure as Chair of this Section and as Secretary of the International Lactation Consultant Association's Equity Committee (both positions ran from 2017 to 2019). My efforts have contributed to the archiving of environmental sociology teaching resources for educators, revisions of the Environmental Sociology Section's awards to better reflect our Section's regard for diversity, equity, and inclusion, and new diversity, equity, and inclusion training opportunities and mandates for members of the International Lactation Consultant Association. I am an occasional reviewer for Science as Culture, Social Problems, Sociological Inquiry, Environmental Justice, Agriculture and Human Values, and other scholarly journals along with various grant-funding agencies (including the National Science Foundation).
I teach courses on the politics of environment, food, and justice, including, Environment and Society; Radical Environmental Movements; Race, Class, and Environmental Justice; Green Cafe; Researching Women, Water, and Justice; Feminist Theory and Environmental Justice; Sociology of Food; and, Sociology of Knowledge and Food Systems. I engage community-based learning and applied sociology throughout my teaching.
Outside of the classroom, I enjoy advising students on a variety of academic and professional endeavors. I recently served as a research mentor through the Undergraduate Collaborative Research Fund at Middlebury College. Here, I also organized and co-sponsored campus events with the Women of Color and Distinguished Men of Color student groups, including a DAPL Teach-In and an event on the racialization of food. Previously, I was a mentor with the University of Michigan’s Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program and the American Sociological Association's Environmental Sociology Section.
Outreach
In addition to employing community-based learning in my teaching, I advance my applied scholarship through collaborations with my partners in research; together, we aim to develop practical outputs from my analyses that are of more direct use to their communities. Following a working session with the Navajo Nation Breastfeeding Coalition, for example, I summarized my data into a breastfeeding peer counselor support statement distributed to the Navajo Nation Women, Infants, and Children program, Northern Navajo Medical Center, and key decision-makers ahead of the vote on the (now adopted) Resolution on breastfeeding of the NAABIK’ ÍYÁTI’ Standing Committee of the 23rd Navajo Nation Council. I have also shared institutional supports to assist with the Coalition's 2018 and 2019 World Breastfeeding Month celebrations and an indigenous doula training held on the Navajo Nation (Diné Bikéyah) in 2019. Additionally, throughout 2019, as part of our pilot WE-RISE (Water and Environmental Research for Infants' Safe Eating) study, the African American Breastfeeding Network and I supported local health workers in research and training, and we produced an annotated bibliography of existing research on infant feeding during water contamination crises to support lead elimination activists, at the particular request of members of the grassroots Coalition on Lead Emergency, based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
Service
I currently Chair the Teaching and Mentorship Award Committee for the American Sociological Association's Environmental Sociology Section. I recently concluded my tenure as Chair of this Section and as Secretary of the International Lactation Consultant Association's Equity Committee (both positions ran from 2017 to 2019). My efforts have contributed to the archiving of environmental sociology teaching resources for educators, revisions of the Environmental Sociology Section's awards to better reflect our Section's regard for diversity, equity, and inclusion, and new diversity, equity, and inclusion training opportunities and mandates for members of the International Lactation Consultant Association. I am an occasional reviewer for Science as Culture, Social Problems, Sociological Inquiry, Environmental Justice, Agriculture and Human Values, and other scholarly journals along with various grant-funding agencies (including the National Science Foundation).
