I am an environmental anthropologist and Ph.D. candidate in Applied Anthropology at Oregon State University. I study how people make sense of environmental change and how those understandings shape decisions about natural resources.

My research focuses on fisheries and water resource management in the Pacific Northwest. My dissertation examines how ocean salmon fishermen in Oregon and California understand ecological change and fisheries management across connected river–ocean systems, and how knowledge, lived experience, values, and relationships shape shared understandings and different ways of reasoning about management and pathways forward.

My current work is part of an interdisciplinary OSU–Yurok Tribe research project studying social and ecological change after Klamath dam removal. Read more.