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I am interested in investigating the race, gender, and income disparities that are produced by UC schools within their workforce. While identifying vulnerable communities by analyzing literature, news, technical reports, and statistics on this recently debated issue, the study will also examine the types of governance systems that hold prime accountability in contributing to and exacerbating toxic conditions and their injuries.

As an anthropologist of embodiment and ecological health, my current research agenda deals with speculative African futures in regards to earth as resource as well reflection of humanity. My ethnographic research explores aesthetics of the African Anthropocene in Uganda, with attention to development in rural expanses. Mining and other venoms of industry replace natural ecosystems, and open environments often hold profound contamination.

Almost every morning I walk down the hill of Landfair Avenue, turn left on Strathmore, and make my way to the UCLA campus. This is a main outlet from the only (barely) affordable area of student housing near campus that is surrounded by some of the world’s most wealthy neighborhoods (Bel Air, Beverley Hills, Brentwood). Each morning it funnels hundreds of students from their three or four to-a-room apartments to school, caught up in a constant entrepreneurial push to become something in a top tier university.