She is a human geographer with expertise on corporate social and environmental responsibility, urban sustainability and ethical markets. She is interested how government regulation, social and environmental activism, and market mechanisms such as ethical consumerism drive corporate change and sustainable development. Trina’s research and commentary has been featured in The Guardian, The Huffington Post, The Washington Post and other media outlets, and her first book, co-edited with Winifred Curran at DePaul University and entitled Just Green Enough: Urban Development and Environmental Gentrification, was published at the beginning of this year.