Graduate Directory

Research Interests

Agriculture, Environmental Justice, Compost, Food Justice, Human Geographies, Land dispossession, Sustainability, and Sociology

Biography, Education and Training

BA, Hunter College '14

MA, Tuskegee University '19

Honors, Awards and Grants

Gliessman Fund 2023
Heller Agroecology Graduate Student Research Grant 2023
Lewis and Clark Fund for Exploration and Field Research 2023
Heller Agroecology Graduate Student Research Grant 2022
Heller Agroecology Graduate Student Research Grant 2021
Honor Society of Agriculture, Gamma Sigma Delta 2018
Presented at Tuskegee University.

Selected Publications

Fairbairn, Madeline et al. “Selling Out the Delta: Farmland Investment and Small Farmer Land Access in Mississippi.” February 2023. National Family Farm Coalition; Federation of Southern Cooperatives. https://nffc.net/wp-content/uploads/SellingOuttheDelta_FINAL.pdf

Elsa Calderon and Desmond G. Mortley . "Vermicompost soil amendment influences yield, growth responses and nutritional value of Kale (Brassica oleracea Acephala group), Radish (Raphanus sativus) and Tomato (Solanum lycopersicum L)." Journal of Soil Science and Environmental Management 12, no. 2 (2021): 86-93. https://doi.org/10.5897/JSSEM2021.0873

Selected Presentations

Paper Presentation, “Selling out the Delta” AAG Annual Meeting, March 2023
Poster Presentation, “Threats to Black Landownership in the US Southeast and Racial Trauma” New Horizon in Conservation Conference, March 2022
Paper Presentation, “Threats to Black Landownership in the US Southeast as Racial Trauma”, Dimensions of Political Ecology Conference, March 2022
Paper Presentation, “Threats to Black landownership in the US Southeast” FSC Forward 2022, National Heirs Property Conference, 2021