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Fellows & Members

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Dalia Vasquez
FGC Fellow

PhD student in Geography

2024-2025 Lab Manager

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

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MA, Makerere University, Uganda
Pursuing a PhD in Geography

Immaculate Odd Irumba

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

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Ph.D. Geography - UT Austin
MA Geography - UT Austin
BA Environmental Science - Colorado College

Francis Russell

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. 

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PhD Geography -UT Austin
MA Geography - UT Austin
BA International Studies, Spanish Language, and Latin American Studies - American University

Suzanne Nimoh

Suzie's research examines kinship and black feminist ecologies of care.  Personal website here.

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PhD Geography - UT Austin
MA Geography - UT Austin
BA Geography and Humanities - UT Austin

Dominica Whitesell

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.

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Ph.D. Geography - UT Austin
 

Mahboobe Safaei Mehr

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

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PhD Geography - UT Austin
MA Latin American Studies 
BA Latin American Studies 

Elybeth Alcantar

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.

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PhD Geography
 

Laura Botero
FGC Fellow

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

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BA Environmental Science with a minor in Leadership and Global Sustainability - UT -Austin

Anya Gandavadi

 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. 

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PhD Geography - UT Austin
MSc Human Geography - University of Amsterdam
B.A. Sociology and Environmental Science -Tulane University

Claire Fitch

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.

Former Members

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Alyssa Ramirez
(Lab Manager)
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Nadia Mosquera Muriel
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Tianna Bruno
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Kany Abdullah
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Julia Bordelon
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Meraal Hakeem
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Juliet Jefferson
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Alyssa Morales
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Meena Pyatt
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Gabi Velasco
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Bianca Busogi
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Kaily Heitz
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Riley McKinzie
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Temi Ajibola
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Zaria El-Fil
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Devon Hsaio
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Cara McConnell
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Shelby Peyton
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Alexzandra Roman
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Imani S. White
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Maria Sailale
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Karla Peña
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Aloysie Umutoniwase
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Caroline Ankoma-Sey
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Sara Flinn
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Lynn Huynh
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Cammie Moore
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Ruth Pineda
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Yasmine Soubra
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Jessie Yin
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