Current research projects
My research focuses on social-environmental leadership for forest conservation. Drawing off of the GCF Task Force global network and decades of experience in Brazil and other regions of Latin America, I collaborate with colleagues at the University of Colorado, as well as professors and students from universities around the world.
PIRE: Promoting Healthy Communities and Sustainable Gold Supply Chains through Socially Responsible Engineering: Integrating Engineering and Local Knowledge to Design, Implement and Evaluate Sustainable Artisanal Mining Systems in Latin America
Working with communities, companies, and NGO leaders in Peru and Colombia, the PIRE project primarily focuses on graduate student training and professional development. PIRE is led by the Colorado School of Mines, and involves not only CU, but institutions in Latin America.
National Science Foundation funding (2018-2023)
Trans-Atlantic Platform Recovery, Renewal and Resilience in a Post-Pandemic World
FORTE – FORest ciTizenship for disaster rEsilience: learning from COVID-19
This interdisciplinary project seeks to understand and enhance ways in which resilience to COVID-19 and other disasters affecting marginalized Amazonians can be strengthened by forest citizenship---political processes through which Amazonian communities have demanded recognition and claimed rights. Led by Lancaster University, this project involves CU Boulder and several academic institutional collaborators in Brazil.
