The Feminist Geography Collective 

PhD student in Geography

2024-2025 Lab Manager

Dalia studies water politics in Mexico using decolonial and political ecology frameworks

Immaculate's research examines tourism, sustainable development and gendered livelihoods in Western Uganda

Francis (they/he)'s research  engages closely with feminist political ecology, development theory, and applied GIScience to investigate the social and environmental vulnerability and resilience of coffee farms in Puerto Rico. 

Suzanne is a PhD student in the Department of Geography and the Environment at UT Austin. Her research focuses on the manipulation of the built and natural environment and its contribution to belonging and exclusion through maintaining colonial legacies.  She studies how violence committed against Indigenous people and Black people through United States’ nation-making is materially and discursively removed in the construction of the nation’s landscape and memory. Personal website here.

Dominica graduated with a PhD in 2024 and was a co-founder of the collective. She remains active as a peer-mentor. Personal website here.

Mahboobe (Yasi)'s research is concentrated on Economic Geography, Geospatial methods and a demographic analysis of reproductive health in Texas.

Elybeth is a Mixteca  geographer whose research explores critical indigenous geographies, political ecology, social mobilizations for land, sovereignty, and the geographies of Mixtec people in Oaxaca, Mexico and in the diaspora. Personal website here.

Laura Botero draws on feminist political ecologies of extraction with a focus on communities in Venezuela

 Anya (she/her) is a Junior Environmental Science major with a minor in Leadership and Global Sustainability. She is interested in studying what a just and equitable global energy and resource transition can look like. She also dedicates her time to the Environmental Justice Collective where she focuses on human experiences with the natural environment and storytelling, reproductive justice, and intersectional environmental policy. 

Claire's research contemplates how experiences of ‘nature’ in virtual reality (VR) provide a novel arena for the contemplation, (re)negotiation, and enactment of human-environment relationships. She studies VR users’ embodied experiences in virtual ‘nature’ environments, contextualizes this within a broader consideration of contemporary material human-environment relationships under technocapitalism.