Kim Fortun

Kim Fortun is a professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of California, Irvine. Her research and teaching focus on environmental injustice and governance, experimental ethnography, and the poetics and politics of knowledge infrastructure. Fortun’s research has examined how people in different geographic and organizational contexts understand environmental problems, uneven distributions of environmental health hazards, developments in the environmental health sciences, and factors that contribute to disaster vulnerability. Fortun’s publications include "Advocacy After Bhopal Environmentalism, Disaster, New Global Orders" (2001), “Ethnography in Late Industrialism” (2012) and “Cultural Analysis in/of the Anthropocene” (2021).

Kim Fortun is a professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of California, Irvine. Her research and teaching focus on environmental injustice and governance, experimental ethnography, and the poetics and politics of knowledge infrastructure. Fortun’s research has examined how people in different geographic and organizational contexts understand environmental problems, uneven distributions of environmental health hazards, developments in the environmental health sciences, and factors that contribute to disaster vulnerability. Fortun’s publications include "Advocacy After Bhopal Environmentalism, Disaster, New Global Orders" (2001), “Ethnography in Late Industrialism” (2012) and “Cultural Analysis in/of the Anthropocene” (2021).

Prerna Srigyan

Prerna Srigyan is a PhD student in the Department of Anthropology at the University of California, Irvine. Her research focuses on education to science and governance pathways, and diverse environmental and social justice pedagogies. Srigyan’s current research explores how learning and teaching shape knowledge production and politics, foregrounding ways pedagogy can be leveraged for civic and public interests. She is especially interested in the role of educators as knowledge producers and mediators. Recent publications include a blog post about environmental justice as a pedagogical problem.

Prerna Srigyan is a PhD student in the Department of Anthropology at the University of California, Irvine. Her research focuses on education to science and governance pathways, and diverse environmental and social justice pedagogies. Srigyan’s current research explores how learning and teaching shape knowledge production and politics, foregrounding ways pedagogy can be leveraged for civic and public interests. She is especially interested in the role of educators as knowledge producers and mediators. Recent publications include a blog post about environmental justice as a pedagogical problem.

Nadine Tanio

Nadine Tanio is a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Anthropology at the University of California, Irvine. Her research focuses on K–16 education, science studies, epistemic justice, and transformational pedagogy.

Nadine Tanio is a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Anthropology at the University of California, Irvine. Her research focuses on K–16 education, science studies, epistemic justice, and transformational pedagogy.

Margaret Tebbe

Margaret Tebbe is a PhD student in the Department of Sociology at the University of California, Irvine. Her research and teaching focus on K–12 schools as sites of environmental injustice, and the potential role of both schools and students in the environmental justice movement.

Margaret Tebbe is a PhD student in the Department of Sociology at the University of California, Irvine. Her research and teaching focus on K–12 schools as sites of environmental injustice, and the potential role of both schools and students in the environmental justice movement.