I am a political ecologist centering climate justice across islands and oceans. 
My research is concerned with explaining and challenging the social-political structures that reproduce harm and provide the foundation for inequitable futures. By focusing on militarization, climate change adaptation, and racialization throughout the Pacific I emphasize how communities are differently marginalized by common systems. As a PhD candidate at University of California Berkeley, I examine military-led adaptation through a comparative case study in two locations with distinct relationships to the U.S. empire: the unincorporated island territory of Guåhan (Guam) and San Diego County, California in the mainland United States. Beyond uncovering injustice, I seek to collaboratively vision and generate transformative climate justice through place-based environmental stewardship and community-building across geographies.

I am also a co-founder of the Critical Pacific Islands Studies Collective (CPISC), a growing network of Pacific Islanders and allies who conduct interdisciplinary research, mentor students, and support the equitable study of the Pacific. Among other projects, I co-led CPISC to build a public archive of environmental contamination in the Marianas, and to produce The Oceanic Podcast, sharing stories and visions from across Oceania.

I received my Master of Environmental Science from Yale University and a Bachelor of Science in Environmental Science from Johns Hopkins University.