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Introduction
I am a recent PhD graduate from the Department of Anthropology, University of California, San Diego (dissertation defended May 2021). My research focuses on human-environmental interactions, particularly in terms of natural resource conservation, ethics and eco-tourism. I pursued doctoral fieldwork in the Raja Ampat archipelago of West Papua, Indonesia. I am also interested in climate change and the ethnography of diplomacy and international organizations.
Current institution
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February 2017 - April 2023
Position
- Foreign Service Officer
Description
- -Climate Change Officer, Office of Global Change, Bureau of Oceans and Environmental Sciences (August 2023- ); -Political-Economic Officer, US Embassy Santiago, Chile (August 2021-July 2023); -Vice Consul, US Consulate General Merida, Mexico (June 2019-June 2021); -Vice Consul and Attaché, US Embassy Kingston, Jamaica (February 2017-Oct 2018)
September 2015 - February 2017
Millennium Challenge Corporation
Position
- Consultant
Description
- Provided strategic guidance and analytical services to the US Government in support of a bilateral Liberia Compact, and Indonesia Compact, focused on enhancing economic opportunities for unemployed youth, ex-combatants, poor women and marginalized groups.
January 2011 - February 2017
Position
- PhD Student
Description
- Teaching Assistant, Associate-in Anthropology, IGERT Graduate Research Fellow Taught over 10 courses, led instruction, developed pedagogy, with Dept.of Anthropology, International Relations, Dept. of History
Education
January 2013 - August 2020
January 2011 - December 2012
August 2005 - May 2007
Publications
Publications (9)
This thesis examines a dispute over environmental conservation projects between people living in Kaimana District of West Papua, Indonesia and environmental non-governmental organizations. It investigates social dynamics of environmentalism through analyzing a dispute over a speedboat that was seized by community members on behalf of Kaimana’s here...
This paper critically examines assumptions about adaptation to social and environmental change, through a discussion of interactions among coastal communities and
international environmental organizations in the Raja Ampat Islands of northwestern New Guinea. In recent years, Raja Ampat has become a focus for global marine conservation and eco-touri...
This presentation provides results of a summer research trip to West Papua, Indonesia. The research project utilized a Rapid Fisheries Assessment Draft Protocol for identifying key social and ecological dynamics of marine resource use among fishing-dependent communities among the Raja Ampat Islands of West Papua, Indonesia.
This dissertation is an ethnographic study of how environmental conservation and ecotourism are contexts for how people sort out what is at stake in living among the Raja Ampat islands of Indonesia’s West Papua Province. Through examining ways that people seek to protect areas and things inhabiting the surrounding land and seascape, I evaluate situ...
This chapter describes the emergence of hybrid conservation practices in the Raja Ampat islands of Indonesian New Guinea in the context of significant socio-economic and ecological change. On West Papua’s coast fringe, different values motivate different types of geographic resource management systems with varying stakes for the people who support...
