Neena Albarus is a doctoral candidate in the School of Social Welfare at the University of California, Berkeley. 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.

Ana Blanco (she/her) is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Sociology at the University of California, Berkeley. Her current research uses interview methods to understand how Caribbean identities and regional understandings are influenced by migration.

Anissa S. Camacho is a PhD student in the Department of Sociology. Her research focuses on Afro-Latinidad, environmental policy, racial capitalism, and ecology, with a particular focus on climate change, colonialism, political economy, and infrastructure in Puerto Rico's archipelago. Her mixed-methods approach explores community resilience through nature-based solutions such as sand dunes, mangroves, and coral reefs, which serve as critical defenses against hurricane impacts in coastal pueblos. More info. 

Adriana (she/her) is a PhD candidate in 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. candidate in the Department of Sociology at the University of California, Berkeley. Her current research focuses on oil and climate governance in Guyana through content analysis and interview methods.  More info. 

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 an Environmental Engineering PhD candidate. 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. More info. 

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. 

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

Gabriel Vieira (he/him) is a PhD student in Geography.  His work focuses on how the figure of the criminal modulates the relationship between the state and marginalized urban populations in Trinidad. 

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.