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Germany

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.

Uganda

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.

Uganda

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.

Freiburg, Baden-Württemberg, Germany

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.

Freiburg, Baden-Württemberg, Germany

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.

Remote

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.

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

Tucson, Arizona

- 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

Master Of Arts - Ma, Social Sciences

Activities and Societies: Related coursework: Ecology & Society, Society & Natural Resources, Introduction to Political Ecology, Media.

Certificate, From Wild Consumption To Responsible Engagement

Activities and Societies: Selected workshops & courses: “Nature is over” global sustainability challenges, New Economic Thinking.

Forest Garden Trainer Certificate

Activities and Societies: Related coursework: Introduction to the Forest Garden, The Phased Approach, Facilitation Tools, Seedling.

Bachelor Of Arts - Ba, Sustainability, 4.0 (Us System), 1,0 (German System)

Activities and Societies: Related coursework: Systems Thinking, Professional Skills in Sustainability, Future Thinking Strategies.

Bachelor Of Arts - Ba, Anthropology, 4.0 (Us System), 1,0 German System

Activities and Societies: Related coursework: International Development & Sustainability, Ethics of Eating, People & Plants (ethnobotany).

High School Diploma

Activities and Societies: Track & Field, Theater Company, Dress Code Committee, Student Council