Graduate Directory
- Title
- Doctoral Candidate
- Division Social Sciences Division
- Department
- Environmental Studies Department
- Website
- Office Location
- Nat Sci 2 Annex, 234
- Mail Stop Environmental Studies
- Mailing Address
- 1156 High Street
- Santa Cruz CA
Summary of Expertise
Political ecology, fisheries and food systems, human-nature geography, commodity chain studies, and consumer science
Research Interests
Power and globalization, seafood security, small-scale fisheries, Blue economy, equity and traceability in seafood, and alternative food networks
Honors, Awards and Grants
Research fellowships & grants
2020 Women’s Club Scholarship
2019 Chancellor Dissertation Fellowship, UCSC
2019 Heller Agroecology Grad Fellowship, UCSC
2018 Global Food Initiative Fellowship, UC Office of the President
2018 GSA Travel Grant, UCSC
2018 ENVS Summer Research Grant, UCSC
2018 Services for Transfer and Re-entry Students, UCSC
2018 Heller Agroecology Grad Fellowship, UCSC
2017 National Science Foundation I-Corps Fellowship
2017 ENVS Summer Research Grant, UCSC
2017 Services for Transfer and Re-entry Students, UCSC,
2017 SSRC Dissertation Proposal Development Program, UCSC
2017 Heller Agroecology Grad Fellowship, UCSC
2016 Research Innovation Fellowship in Agriculture, (RIFA) Fellowship, Cairo, Egypt
2015 ENVS Summer Research Grant, UCSC
2015 GSA Travel Grant, UCSC
2015 Regents Scholarship, UCSC
Awards & honors
2018 Business Design Showcase, Center for Innovation & Entrepreneurs, 1st Place
2017 David Gaines Environmental Studies Award
2017 Concur, Inc. Scholarship, Honorable mention
2017 IDEAS Hub, UCSC
2017 Big Ideas, UC Berkeley, 2nd Place Winner, Technology for Sustainable Fisheries
2016 Blum Center Award on Poverty, Social Enterprise and Participatory Governance
2011 Oregon Sea Grant Endorsement for NOAA Coastal Management Fellowship
Selected Presentations
SELECTED MEDIA COVERAGE
2019 “Trash fish: a list of the sustainable seafood we should be eating.” Huffington Post by Amanda Balagur (link)
2019 “There will be no commercial herring catch in SF Bay this year.” San Francisco Chronicle by Tara Duggan. (link)
2016 “Egyptian chefs put farmed tilapia to the taste test.” WorldFish Press Release by Mona El Azzazy (link)
2013 “Fair fish on San Francisco fisherman’s wharf.” Earth Island Journal by Zoe Loftus-Farren (link)
2012 “Knowing your farmer – and your fisherman.” Ecotrope OPB by Cassandra Profita (link)
Teaching Interests
Marine and coastal policy, environmental policy, environmental economics, political economy
