Conference Papers
2022 “‘But I’m a woodworker:’ confronting aesthetics of innocence with incommensurability
in the gentrifying Hudson Valley.” Whiteness, Anti-Blackness and Urban Development I:
Aesthetics and Erasures. American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting, New
York, NY.
2020 “Abolition and the Study and Practice of Food Justice.” Food and Carceral
Intersections: From Geographies of Confinement to Enactments of Abolition. American
Association of Geographers Annual Meeting, Remote
2018 “Farms, not Prisons: Frameworks for transformative rural politics in the Hudson Valley.”
Emancipatory rural politics II: Resisting, mobilizing and creating alternatives.
American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA
2017 “Using Food and Farmland for Prison Abolition: movement building in New York.”
Resilience, Food, and Agriculture: Social-Ecological Frameworks for Sustainability and
Social Justice. American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting, Boston, MA
2017 “An (expansive) Urban Political Ecology of Incarceration, USA.” Expanding the
Boundaries of Urban Political Ecology: New Theoretical and Empirical Engagements. 7 th
Annual Dimensions of Political Ecology Conference, Lexington, KY
2016 “Farms, not Prisons: Building an intersectional movement for food justice and prison
abolition in New York’s Hudson Valley.” On the Racial Politics of Agriculture. 6th Annual
Dimensions of Political Ecology Conference, Lexington, KY
2014 “Integrations of Climate and Immigrant Justice in Georgia.” Youth and Political Action
in the City. American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting, Tampa, FL
2014 “And Justice for All: solidarity, scale, and integrational organizing in the climate and
immigrant justice movements in Georgia.” 4th Annual Dimensions of Political Ecology
Conference, Lexington, KY
Winner, 1st Place, Undergraduate Paper Prize

Conference Panels
2017 Panelist, “Activist Imaginaries II: Loud and Unlikely Acts.” 23rd annual Conference on
Critical Geographies: Situated Solidarity, Lexington, KYST Black CV | 4 of 5

Invited Talks
2023 “Making Carceral Places: Development and Displacement in Revitalized Cities.”
Lecture invited by the Alabama Center for Architecture, Birmingham, AL
2021 “Listening Party and Community Conversation: The History and Future of Housing in
Hudson and Catskill.” Invited by the Community Library of Voice & Sound, Hudson, NY
2019 “Farms, Not Prisons: Geographies of food and incarceration across the urban and rural”
Invited by the Lamar Dodd School of Art at the University of Georgia, Athens, GA