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Invited Talks

2021

Podcasts as method for understanding women's experiences of climate change

Women and Climate Change Speaker Series, University of Maine, March 25

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Sessions and Panels Organized

2019

Enacting anti-colonialism and antiracism through a caring praxis

Co-organized with Minelle Mahtani, University of British Colombia

American Association of Geographers, Washington D.C., April 3-7

 

2019

Emerging Tourism Economies: Impacts on Place and People

Co-organized with Karly Miller, University of California Santa Barbara

American Association of Geographers, Washington D.C., April 3-7

 

2018

Intersectionality and coloniality in human-environment geography: Empirical contributions to feminist theory from Latin America

Co-organized with Megan Baumann, Pennsylvania State University

Conference of Latin Americanist Geographers, San José, Costa Rica, May 20-22

 

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Papers Presented

2021

A postcolonial intersectional reading of shifting livelihoods in Talamanca, Costa Rica

American Association of Geographers Conference, Virtual, April 7-11

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2019

Global amenity migration and racialized dispossession on Costa Rica’s Talamanca Coast

American Association of Geographers Conference, Washington DC, April 2-6

 

2019

National park co-management and racialized environmental imaginaries in Costa Rica and Colombia

Co-presented with Karly Miller, UC Santa Barbara

Dimensions of Political Ecology, Lexington, KY, February 21-23

 

2018

Race, coloniality, and global amenity migration to Costa Rica’s Caribbean coast

Race, Ethnicity and Place Conference, Austin, Texas, October 23-25

 

2018

The role of gender and race in emerging livelihood opportunities in Costa Rica’s Afro-Caribbean tourist destination

Conference of Latin Americanist Geographers, San José, Costa Rica, May 20-22

 

2017

Exotic Natures/Bodies: Afro-Costa Ricans in Talamanca

American Association of Geographers Conference, Boston, MA, April 5-9

 

2017

Race, class, and gender in Costa Rica's 'Green Development'

Conference of Latin American Geographers, New Orleans, CA, January 3-5

 

2016

Mining, gender, and livelihood transformations in “post-neoliberal” Bolivia

American Association of Geographers Conference, San Francisco, CA, April 1-5

 

2016

Post-colonialism and subjectivity: Feminist perspectives on resistance in art

Women's Studies Conference, State College, PA, February 20

 

2015

Gender, mining, and environmental justice in Bolivia

Circuits of Justice Workshop, State College, PA, November 8

 

2010

The Transnational Networks of Cultural Commodities: Peruvian Food in San Francisco

American Association of Geographers Conference, Washington D.C., April 16

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Panel Participation

2017

‘Do Your Work’: On Solidarity and Scholarship

American Association of Geographers Conference, Boston, MA, April 5-9

 

2016

Shaking up the University

Critical Geographies Conference, Lexington, KY, October 14-15

 

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Workshop Participation

2021

NSF Reciprocity of Community Science Workshop

National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, July 16

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2018

Early Career Scholars Mentorship Workshop

Race, Ethnicity and Place Conference, Austin, Texas, October 23

 

2016

Qualitative Research Ethics in the Era of Big Data

National Science Foundation, Washington D.C., December 8