Mairi is a data driven storyteller, seed keeper, writer, and researcher whose work is grounded at the nexus of political ecologies and economies of food, the commons, and cultural foodways.
She is a doctoral student in UC Berkeley's Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management's Division of Society & Environment, with a designated emphasis from the Folklore Graduate Group. Mairi works with methods from across the social sciences and humanities at the intersection of food systems, capital, land, natural resource management & governance, and community-based economic development. She has conducted community-based, participatory research on Indigenous food sovereignty since 2019, and currently studies ocean governance, property rights, capital, and the socio-ecological dimensions of coastal management in relation to marine aquaculture and the seafloor.
Prior to UC Berkeley, Mairi led and collaborated on research projects for mission driven organizations across the United States, with a focus on local and regional food systems development, traditional ecological knowledge and ecosystems management, environmental education at tribal colleges and universities, and equitable finance. She has experience conducting research across a variety of geographies in the United States and Latin America, with a particular focus on the Northern Great Plains.
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