Education

August. 2019 – present

PhD Candidate, Geography, Syracuse University.

April. 2014 – Feb. 2018

Nov. 2009 – Oct. 2013

January 2022 – May 2022

January 2022 – August 2022

August 2020 – December 2021

Master of Science, Integrated Natural Resource Management, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin. Semester abroad, Geography Department of Universidade de Sao Paulo, Brazil.

Bachelor of Science, Biology, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin.

Research Assistant, Grader, Syracuse University.

Union organizer for Organzi.ng

Teaching Assistant, Syracuse University

  • The Natural Environment

  • Human Geographies

Academic student assistant Humboldt Universität, Life Sciences Faculty, Berlin

Professional experience

April. 2016 – Feb. 2018

Nov. 2013- Feb. 2014

Intern– ADEID (Action pour un developpement, equitable, intégré et durable), Bafoussam, Cameroon.

Intern– Rio de Janeiro Botanical Garden, Brazil.

Writer, translator

Jacobin (online), Marxismo crítico (online), Revista de Frente (online), Commune magazine (online), Revista Insurgente (online)

Oct. - Dec. 2011

Since 2015

Peer reviewed publications

2023. The case for environmental labor geography: The role of organized labor in the climate crisis, Progress in Human Geography, 47(2), 317-332.

2022. “Our Turks make the best German cars”: Racism as a tool to break workers' power in the 1973 Ford strikes, Antipode, 54(3), 873-891.

Conferences/presentations

2024

Conference on Global Coal Transitions, Ohio University, presentation

SASE 2024 (Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics), paper presentation

American Association of Geographers 2024, paper presentation

Findings presentation for Revierwende (German Union Confederation’s project for transitioning the coal mining regions)

Labor Geography seminar at the Geography Department of the Bayreuth University, Germany

DSA after Bernie. Colloquium participation at the University of Jena, Germany

Historical Materialism conference, SOAS London, paper presentation

Royal Geographical Society-IBG London conference, paper presentation

American Association of Geographers 2023, paper presentation

Herbstforum-Promotionswerkstatt 2022: Demokratie in Arbeit organized by the Hans-Böckler Stiftung, poster presentation

Marx is’ Muss Conference, Berlin, presentation

2020. Interview. Es ist richtig Biden nicht zu unterstützen. For Die Freiheitsliebe

2018. La mitigación del cambio climático es por la izquierda, Revista de Frente

2018. Forward to peace! Forward to socialism!, Peace and Place: 20th anniversary issue, You are here, Journal of Creative Geography, University of Arizona

2018. ¡Que todo Chile se vuelva feminista!, Marx21.net

2017. Argentinien ein neuer Massenaufstand? Interview with Fernando Prieto for Marx21.de

2016. Brasilien und das Scheitern der Klassenversöhnung, Interview with Isadora Penna for Marx21.de

Research Excellence Doctoral Funding Program, Syracuse University

Watson Grant, Syracuse University

Evelyn L. Pruitt Fellowship

AAG Dissertation Research Grant

PARCC mini-grant, Syracuse University

Martin Roscoe Grant Award, Syracuse University

Thompson Burkhead Award, Syracuse University

Moynihan Summer Research Grant Program: Goekjian/MASU Research Grant, Syracuse University

Syracuse University Graduate Fellowship

PROMOS - DAAD

IG Metall

Ver.di

Society of Woman Geographers

The American Geographical Society

American Association of Geographers

Humboldt geht in die Schulen

Reviewer for the Antipode Journal, ACS Books.

2023. Podcast Interview for Leftreckoning. We can't beat climate change without workers.

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2022

2023

2017

Other publications

Fellowship/ Awards

2024

2023

2023

2022

2023

2021

2020

2021

2019-2020 (2022-2023)

2015

2009

Service

Memberships

2020. Interview with Tamara Ortega. Chile after the plebiscite, Pinochet’s constitution. For Nobordersnew.org

2024. Podcast Interview for Green New Deal Media, UK. Organizing in Coal Mines and Car Plants for climate

2024

Seminar on the Green Transition, Syracuse University.

2024

Summer Dissertation Fellowship, Graduate School, Syracuse University

2024

Historical Materialism Conference, London. Session organizer and presenter

2024

2025 (forthcoming)

AAG, Detroit, presenter and session co-organizer

Past, Present, and Future of Green Jobs conference at Université du Québec en Outaouais, presenter