For over a decade, I’ve led research and advocacy efforts for a range of organizations, all centered around one core, increasingly urgent, question: how do climate change impacts affect human migration, and how can policy better protect people’s rights on the move?
Currently, I lead research and advocacy on community-wide planned relocation at Human Rights Watch. I am also the co-facilitator of a new Global Coalition on Dignified Climate Relocation, an advisory committee member of the Platform on Disaster Displacement, a non-resident fellow at the Center for Global Development, and an affiliate of the Kaldor Centre.
My work is directly informed by my interdisciplinary doctoral research, which focused on the outcomes and governance of community-wide planned relocations as both a strategy for climate change adaptation and a durable solution for disaster-displaced persons. My research has been published in peer reviewed journals such as Nature Climate Change, Nature Communications, Global Environmental Change and Climate Policy, and covered by global media outlets such as the Guardian, Al Jazeera, NPR, and the BBC.
Previously I worked on climate displacement for the United Nations Refugee Agency, Internal Displacement Monitoring Center, and the Nansen Initiative, among other organizations.
I believe that human connection is the most important currency of our lifetimes. If anything on this page resonates, please reach out!
