I am an applied cultural anthropologist working at the intersection of water governance, infrastructure, and environmental change in Latin America and the United States. My research takes a political ecology perspective to examine alignments and misalignments between environmental policies and on-the-ground practices to identify pathways for more just and culturally-sensitive climate adaptation.

I draw on mixed methods to study human adaptation to prolonged drought and flooding with critical attention to political economy, as well as the plurality of values and norms that mediate individual and institutional engagements with natural resources.