Kieren is a doctoral student in the Society & Environment Division of the Environmental Science, Policy, & Management Department at UC Berkeley. Their research interests lie at the intersections of environmental justice, climate change adaptation, and military colonialism. Kieren primarily investigates these issues as they materialize in U.S. territories in relation to questions of sovereignty and political status. They approach this work through the lenses of critical race theory, political ecology, and decolonization studies.
Before coming to UC Berkeley, Kieren researched climate policy, planning, and discourse across various geographies within the continental United States, as well as in the U.S. Virgin Islands. Kieren has also work on a myriad of climate justice issues as an organizer and researcher for community-based organizations and policy think tanks in Washington D.C., Maryland, New York, and Connecticut. Kieren has a Master of Environmental Science from Yale University and a Bachelor of Science from Johns Hopkins University.
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