Adriana (she/her) is a 3rd year PhD student in the Geography Her current research focuses on pasts, presents, and futures of infrastructure and resource use, as well as repair from colonialism and other catastrophes in the region. 

Anna Feign (Palmer) (she/her) is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Sociology at the University of California, Berkeley. Her current research focuses on political decision-making and resistance to oil extraction in Guyana through content analysis and interview methods. 

Alexandre Erich S. Georges (he/him) is a Ph.D. candidate in Environmental Engineering at UC Berkeley. His research focuses on the potential and use of natural infrastructure for climate change adaptation in coastal communities in Haiti and the Caribbean. 

J’Anna (she/her) is a 4th year Environmental Engineering PhD student. She is interested in the reparative capacity of engineering in thinking through questions of climate justice in the Caribbean. Her research explores the impact of colonial world building on the natural and built infrastructures.

Jimena (she/her) is a 3rd year Geography Ph.D. student. Her current research contends with how settler colonialism manifests in the environment and the efforts to imagine and practice repair amidst its disabling effects. 

Dr. Jovan Scott Lewis (he/him) is a Professor and Chair of the Department of Geography and the Haas Distinguished Chair in Economic Disparities. He studies Black people's lived experience of economic and racial inequality and reparative frameworks for those disparities. 

Neena Albarus is a doctoral candidate in the School of Social Welfare at the University of California, Berkeley. Her research experience spans structural violence, community resilience, and the intersections of policy and public health, with particular attention to underrepresented and historically marginalised regions in Jamaica and the Caribbean. Her dissertation explores interventions addressing the commercial sexual exploitation of children in Jamaica. Neena is committed to using data to advance social interventions across the Caribbean and other underrepresented regions.

Kimberley Watt is a PhD student in the Department of Geography at the University of California, Berkeley. She studies how China’s foreign direct investment is reshaping land governance and environmental regulation in Jamaica. Her work focuses on bauxite mining, infrastructure, energy, and telecommunications projects, exploring how these large-scale investments affect land access, resource control, and state power.

Grounded in political ecology, she examines the legal, institutional, and territorial mechanisms that enable China’s investment strategies, plans, and goals in Jamaica and their role in reconfiguring approaches to land and development.