Reflexivity is central to how I approach environmental anthropology and human dimensions research. I understand knowledge, including my own, as situated, shaped by lived experience, relationships, histories, institutions, and ways of knowing. My research approaches environmental issues as fundamentally relational, attending to how people understand their relationships with environments and other forms of life, and how social, cultural, and ecological processes become intertwined. This perspective also shapes my interest in making different ways of understanding environmental change visible without assuming that all perspectives are interchangeable or carry equal authority.

As a White settler researcher, I am attentive to how my own experiences, training, and institutional position shape the questions I ask, the relationships I build, and the interpretations I bring to my work. This is particularly important in environmental contexts shaped by colonial histories, Tribal sovereignty, resource extraction, and unequal relationships of power. For me, reflexivity requires ongoing listening, intellectual humility, and accountability: being transparent about the limits of my perspective, taking lived and community knowledge seriously, and remaining attentive to whose knowledge is recognized, whose experiences are represented, and who has authority in environmental research and decision-making.