I am an assistant professor of Geography at the University of Washington in Seattle. I research questions of race and nature as they relate to migration, borderlands and conservation. My first book, Green Wars: Conservation and Decolonization in Guatemala's Maya Forest , was published in December 2017 by the University of California Press. With Nik Heynen, I'm organizing a session at the 2018 AAGs in New Orleans that develops abolition ecologies in seeking immigrant justice in a context of arbitrary detention and deportation.

 I teach classes including: Environmental Justice (Winter 2018); Race, Nature & Power (Spring 2018); and a graduate seminar on Critical Race & Postcolonial Geographies (Winter 2018). If you're a UW student hoping to meet with me, please email me to schedule an appointment.

​​If you are applying to our geography graduate program (MA/PhD), please look over my teaching & advising page and write me a brief email.

You can also see what I'm reading on at goodreads.

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