Experience

College of the Atlantic

• United States
• Higher Education
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Associate Dean of Faculty

  • Aug 2023 - Present

• Partridge Chair in Food and Sustainable Agriculture Systems

  • Aug 2016 - Present

  As a professor of food and sustainable agriculture systems at College of the Atlantic I teach courses on the intersections of food, justice, policy, and sustainability.



University of Maine

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Research Assistant

  • Aug 2012 - Jun 2016

  As part of an interdisciplinary project funded by the USDA, I researched pollination security in four US crops: blueberries, apples, squash, and cranberries. The goal of the project was to identify strategies to mitigate the "pollination deficit" caused by the declining abundance and rising price of commercial honeybees. My particular task was to use social science methodologies to determine the obstacles to farmers adopting diversified pollination strategies, such as increased conservation of native bees, in order to secure adequate crop pollination. Show less

• Doctoral Candidate - Anthropology & Environmental Policy

  • 2012 - May 2016

  My dissertation examined farmers’ adoption of pollinator conservation practices through a comparative study of lowbush blueberry (Vaccinium angustifolium) growers in Maine, USA and Prince Edward Island (PEI), Canada. Specifically, my research analyzed agricultural policy networks to better understand how federal, state, and local agricultural policies and programs serve as both bridges and barriers to sustainable agriculture.

• Chase Distinguished Research Assistant

  • May 2014 - Aug 2015

• Research Assistant

  • Jun 2010 - May 2012



College of the Atlantic

• United States
• Higher Education
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Visiting Instructor

  • Sep 2015 - Nov 2015



NSF Ethnographic Field School

• Tallahassee, Florida

• Graduate Fellow

  • Jul 2013 - Aug 2013

  Through a grant to Brandeis University and the University of Florida, the National Science Foundation supports an ethnographic field school for Ph.D. students in cultural anthropology from universities in the United States. In 2013, the field school took place in Tallahassee, FL. The field school involves a collaboration between researchers and community partners affiliated with the Health Equity Alliance of Tallahassee (HEAT). Through a grant to Brandeis University and the University of Florida, the National Science Foundation supports an ethnographic field school for Ph.D. students in cultural anthropology from universities in the United States. In 2013, the field school took place in Tallahassee, FL. The field school involves a collaboration between researchers and community partners affiliated with the Health Equity Alliance of Tallahassee (HEAT).



Monroe Public Schools

• Monroe County, Michigan

• Substitute Teacher

  • Nov 2009 - Jun 2010



Rocky Mountain Youth Corps

• United States
• Environmental Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Field Coordinator

  • May 2009 - Oct 2009

  As a field coordinator for RMYC, I trained and acted as support staff for six conservation crews working and living in the Colorado backcountry. All six crews were chainsaw crews that worked on cutting fire breaks and clearing public and private lands of hazards caused by the pine beetle epidemic. As part of this job, I also organized a mid-season rendezvous which brought together 140 people for one weekend, offering workshops, trainings, and community building.

• Crew Leader

  • May 2008 - Aug 2009

  As an RMYC crew leader, I supervised a nine person chainsaw crew while overseeing AmeriCorps education curriculum. The crew worked on several projects throughout Colorado, constructing fire breaks within National Forests’ and removing pine beetle infested trees on both private and BLM land.



Baxter State Park

• Millinocket, Maine

• Trail Crew Intern

  • May 2007 - Aug 2007

  As a SCA trail crew intern at Baxter State Park, I maintained over one hundred miles of trail with seven other interns. As a SCA trail crew intern at Baxter State Park, I maintained over one hundred miles of trail with seven other interns.