Education
University of California Berkeley, Society and Environment Division, Environmental Science, Policy, and Management Department, Dissertation: Gullah Geechee Indigenous Articulation in the Americas, PhD 2015
California State University Hayward, Teacher Education, Thesis: African American High School Students Drop Out Rates, MS 2000
University of California Berkeley, Conservation and Resource Study BS 1994
Academic Appointments
Faculty Fellow, Anti-Racist Curricular Design, Sonoma State University, Office of Academic Programs, 2020 – present
Lecturer, Sonoma State University, Geography, Environment, and Planning and Women’s and Gender Studies Departments, 2018 – present.
Fellowships and Grants
Chancellor’s Faculty Retention Grant, Co-PI, Sonoma State University, 2020 – 2022
Ford Foundation Dissertation Fellowship, 2013 – 2014
National Science Foundation, Graduate Research Fellowship Program, 2010 – 2013
Invited Talks
2020 Intersections of African Diaspora and Indigeneity, State of University of New York, October 15
2019 Indigenous Ontologies: Gullah Geechee Autonomy through Frameworks of Abundance, Geography Seminars, University of California Davis, April 10
Presentations
2019 Gullah Geechee Autonomy in Livelihoods of Abundance in the Americas. Association for the Study of the Worldwide African Diaspora Conference. Williamsburg November
Association Membership
Association of American Geographers, 2012-present
Association for the Study of the Worldwide African Diaspora 2016-present
Native American and Indigenous Studies Association, 2011-present
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