Katherine is an IoES PhD Candidate with a focus on social-ecological systems (SES), animal movement behavior, and environmental narrative. Her research explores how human-wildlife coexistence in shared landscapes is affected by the different ways people and wildlife perceive each other, and how we act on those perceptions.
Katherine is a 2022-23 Pritzker Impact Fellow, current CDLS Early Career Fellow, and UCLA grant awardee. She holds a B.S. in Ecology, Behavior & Evolution and a minor in Creative Writing from the University of California, San Diego. She is also a current co-leader of the Environmental Humanities Reading Group (EHRG) with the English Department, the Environmental Justice Working Group (EJWG) with CDLS, and a member of various other cross-campus, cross-disciplinary groups.
Her research and career goals are to aid ongoing restoration efforts across the world in ways that consider human needs and culture as well as the ecosystems in concern.
