STORYTELLER | SEED KEEPER | RESEARCHER

I’m a data driven storyteller, seed keeper, writer, and researcher working at the nexus of food systems, natural resource management, and cultural foodways.

Since 2019, I’ve led and collaborated on research projects for mission-driven organizations across the United States. I am currently a doctoral student at the University of California, Berkeley, in the Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management, with a designated emphasis in Folklore. My work investigates access issues (of many kinds) throughout the food system, and supports tangible community-based economic development and policy. Specific projects I’ve worked on have focused on local and regional food systems development, traditional ecological knowledge and ecosystems management, environmental education, and equitable finance.

But my experience also spans the food system – from designing and managing a community garden space (and becoming a Permaculture Designer), to working on a small market farm and in restaurants, catering, & food retail, and teaching gardening and seed saving to individuals of all ages. My doctoral dissertation project examines the multispecies geographies of governance, property and access rights, and environmental and cultural change in American estuaries.