I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Urban Planning and Public Policy at the University of California, Irvine. My current research projects investigate the limits and possibilities of shifting finance away from fossil fuels and towards low-carbon futures in ways that repair historical injustices.

My first book project, Divesting from Fossil Fuels: Why Decarbonization is Not Enough (University of California Press, Fall 2027), follows land-based struggles against extractive mines, pipelines, and ports across the Asia Pacific and the United States. Drawing on transnational comparisons and connections, the book delineates how fossil fuel divestment movements have deployed three land-based modalities of struggle—blockades, counter-mapping, and litigation—to challenge structures of neoliberalism and state-sanctioned violence. Tracing the intermeshed modalities of divestment campaigns across global fossil fuel and financial supply chains, the book illustrates how and why movements to divest from fossil fuels must not be severed from land-based struggles for Indigenous sovereignty and environmental justice.

My research has been featured in a variety of scholarly as well as popular forums, including Verso Books, Equator, BBC Radio 4, Outlook Planet, Energy World, Economic and Political Weekly, and the Centre Tricontinental. In the past, I have worked on fossil fuel divestment, labor, and environmental justice campaigns, both on and off campus. I continue to collaborate with faculty, staff, students, and movement-based activists on campaigns focused on shifting finance away from fossil fuels.