​I am an interdisciplinary environmental justice researcher with a background in social ecology, marine science, and gender studies. My research addresses the three pillars of environmental justice in ocean systems: distributional, procedural, and recognitional. I use community-based research methods to partner with resource users to address applied challenges, such as food sovereignty, equitable and community-led decision-making, environmental degradation, and resistance to the dominant global food system. Over the past decade, I have partnered with a range of communities in the Pacific Islands and the United States to study and advance food justice in seafood systems. I integrate my teaching with my research, supporting students with the tools to pursue their own research questions. I am currently a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the University of Maine and the producer and host of Surf & Turf: a seafood justice podcast, which features interviews with U.S. fishermen and their families, seafood processing labor activists and advocates, investigative reporters, seafood small businesses and non-profits, and others across the seafood system.