My research focuses on the human dimensions of climate action and transformations to sustainability using a transdisciplinary approach, with a background climate change adaptation and sustainable development in Latin America, Africa, North America and Europe.
Based at UBC, I am managing the ‘Cities and Communities’ research pillar in MeridaLabs, Faculty of Applied Science. I work in close affiliation with the Accelerating Community Energy Transformation (ACET) as a Research Manager for SRA 5 ‘Integrated Energy Systems,’ with a focus on human dimensions of climate and energy transitions, such as worldviews, values, and beliefs.
Formerly, I was a postdoctoral fellow with the Forests and Communities in Transition (FACT) Lab, in the Faculty of Forestry at the University of British Columbia, Canada. That project, Climate Action Pathways, studied the worldviews and values that shape perceptions to climate action in BC, Canada, in partnership with MakeWay’s Fair Earth Living Program. Prior to that, my PhD was with the AdaptationCONNECTS project at the University of Oslo, on the deeper human dimensions of climate change adaptation and response, with Guatemala as a case study site.
My research has been applied by nonprofits, private and governmental sectors in policy-design and for climate change communications and engagement.
I bring a systems-thinking and integral lens to this complex issue, with a impact-oriented approach. My work draws on a transdisciplinary approach to understand how a greater social mandate for climate action might come about, so to realize more effective climate policies and low-carbon futures.