Experimenting against epistemological violence in Resistance scholarship with counter-hegemonic methodologies, PAR, and Narrative Research. Testing my theories and practice only as far as they contribute directly to emancipation and liberation.

Capacity building at the BLI agroforestry institute for Uganda’s rural poor through data management, knowledge and technology transfer, and program development. Set up a research desk to measure input/outputs, material flows, and social impacts of applied integral agro-ecology.

Conducting transdisciplinary research on social transformations, land-use, agriculture, and religion while monitoring and evaluating the Agro-ecology training programme at the Bethany Land Institute with an integral ecology lens.

Assisting in research on the topics of financing sustainable transformations in agriculture and international partnerships to support the goal of a carbon-neutral EU by 2050 through the “Road to Net-Z€ro” project with the Institut Rousseau.

Sustainability Transformations in Food Systems – Focused on observing transitions at various levels of the food system, with my particular focus observing consumers and their personal stories to identify causal factors for sovereign shifts in food culture toward more sustainable behaviors. Presently involves data collection through literature review, consumer surveys, and qualitative methods such as interviews. Contributing toward an international and interinstitutional research project… Show more Sustainability Transformations in Food Systems – Focused on observing transitions at various levels of the food system, with my particular focus observing consumers and their personal stories to identify causal factors for sovereign shifts in food culture toward more sustainable behaviors. Presently involves data collection through literature review, consumer surveys, and qualitative methods such as interviews. Contributing toward an international and interinstitutional research project proposal, creating presentations, guest presenting lectures on food sovereignty to graduate students, thesis editing, and additional tasks as needed for various PhD projects in economics and public & non-profit management. Show less

Research assistant in the department of Environmental Governance at the University of Freiburg, contributing to the KASCoP-project: Cascades in Biomass Value Chains as 'Communities of Practices' (KASCoP). Funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), KASCoP aims to identify starting points for promoting measures to increase resource efficiency in the use of renewable resources by closing material cycles and by promoting a cascading use of resources. It relies on timber… Show more Research assistant in the department of Environmental Governance at the University of Freiburg, contributing to the KASCoP-project: Cascades in Biomass Value Chains as 'Communities of Practices' (KASCoP). Funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), KASCoP aims to identify starting points for promoting measures to increase resource efficiency in the use of renewable resources by closing material cycles and by promoting a cascading use of resources. It relies on timber as an example.Activities and Responsibilities: extensive literature research, archival data scraping, coding of qualitative data, support with various assigned tasks as needed. Show less

Researcher contributing to the projects of 1) arctic navigation, studying how arctic communities are navigating climate change and the cultural impacts of climate change on indigenous arctic Alaskan groups; 2) Human Economies, the ways in which international development organizations conceptualize informal economic activity, how they respond through policy, and the role of the informal economy urging times of crisis when the formal sector collapses.

Bachelor of Arts in Anthropology (environmental anthropology, food anthropology); Bachelor of Arts in Sustainability (Sustainable Food Systems, International Development)

- Coordinate with stores throughout the district to improve company sustainability- Manage sustainability projects- Coordinate volunteers- Facilitate relationships between the company, volunteers, other participating businesses, and participating non-profit organizations