Margot Jeanne Cohen (she/her) is a member of the Climate Futures Lab, the Disabled Ecologies Lab, and the Latin American SocioNatures Working Group. Her research brings together racial environmental geographies, feminist Science and Technology Studies (STS), and critical participatory methods to examine the political ecologies of climate change adaptation in the Andean highlands of Ecuador and in Western Massachusetts. Her dissertation project engages Participatory Action Research (PAR) as both a subject and methodology to address the coalitional politics of community organizing around the intersections of abolition, displacement, and land relations. Prior to starting her doctoral program, she worked in the nonprofit sector on issues of gender-based violence, reproductive justice, and climate justice. Margot Jeanne holds a Bachelor of Arts in International Relations from Brown University and is a former Fulbright scholar.
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Geography, UC Berkeley
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