Working with archival mammal specimens at Oxford University Museum of Natural History

03 — Recognition

A scientist the field already knows.

Fifteen years of research with Black and Indigenous communities across the Americas, the Pacific, and West Africa — and a public record of teaching, writing, and movement work that has helped shift the boundaries of who science is for.

  • 2025Visiting Faculty in Citizen ScienceBard College
  • 2025Guest Lecturer, Caribbean EcologiesUniversity of the West Indies — Cave Hill
  • 2025“Call and Response: Black Archives across Borders of Being”CARIFESTA XV, Barbados
  • 2025“Building Liberatory Science Education through Epistemic Justice and Repair”UWI Mona, Centre for Reparations Research — webinar
  • 2025R/Evolutionary Ecology, Technology, and Intelligence, after ManD20 (The Decoloniality Network) — invited contribution
  • 2024“resounding ancestor” — multimedia installationImmersion: Into the Jungle, National Gallery of Art, Guyana
  • 2018“The Future of Science is Black”Motherboard / VICE — invited Black History Month feature
  • 2017Named to the Grist 50 “Fixers”for advocacy for equity in STEM
  • 2015–17Co-founder & co-chair, Equity, Inclusion & Diversity CommitteeSociety for Conservation Biology
  • Manager of Pacific ProgramsCenter for Biodiversity and Conservation, American Museum of Natural History
  • MA, Conservation BiologyColumbia University
  • BS, Zoology & AnthropologyUniversity of Wisconsin–Madison