She is systems thinker and political ecologist working at the intersection of urbanization, climate change, cities, and small-scale food based livelihoods. Her background in agroecology, spatial analysis, and qualitative research enable her to engage deeply with local socioecological systems, and to do so with an awareness of how ‘the global’ articulates locally. She embraces the title of scholar-practitioner, and enacts praxis that has as its primary goal social, environmental, and economic justice and the design of sustainable and regenerative societies.