Education

Current | Ph.D. Student in Politics | UC Santa Cruz

2017 | M.P.P. | UC Riverside School of Public Policy

2015 | B.A. Political Science; B.A. Public Policy | UC Riverside

Research Interests

• Dissertation research: politics of environmental justice in California, 2012-2022.
• American politics; political institutions; local/municipal and state government relations; mass movements; political participation, voting & democracy; race/ethnicity and social justice; US foreign policy.
• International relations; international institutions; the United Nations; Latin America; the Global South; Global decolonization.
• Environmental politics; global environmental movements; environmental justice; extractivism; climate change; political ecology.
• Political economy; neoliberalism; capitalism & socialism; Marxism and communist thought.

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Hobbies

News, traveling, cooking, trying new recipes, hiking the forests of SC, movies, reading (especially in libraries), writing, eating at new places, trying new coffee blends, video games, MTG, creating and playing board games. And talking politics!