She is the co-editor of Negotiating Territoriality: Spatial Dialogues Between State and Tradition. She is an environmental anthropologist who partners with communities to examine how local livelihoods and well-being can be sustained in a just future. She has partnered with the Kayapo, an indigenous community in Brazil, for more than ten years. She is currently working on global projects on "media sovereignty" and digital landscapes, environmental justice, and valuing nature, and community resilience and healing.