About Me

Adriana is a critical geographer and poltical ecologist broadly interested in understanding the interface between environmental governance and resource extraction. She is currently a PhD Student and National Science Foundation Graduate Fellow at the University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC) where her doctoral work focuses on the ecological tradeoffs of green transition policy as well as the political economy of state resource management. Her previous research analyzed the extent to which fossil fuel subsidies incentivized resource development in endangered caribou habitat. In addiion to her graduate work she has served as a program assistant at the Social Science Research Council and a most recently as a Junior Fellow with the Climate and Community Institute. She holds a BA in Environmental Studies from Bucknell University and an MA in Geography from the University of British Columbia. Her work has appeared in The Vancouver Sun, The Narwhal, and CBC. In her spare professional time she enjoys creating maps to advance environmental justice campaigns and leveraging her financial database skills to support corporate accountability initiatives.