Richardson School of Law, University of Hawaiʻi and has served as the inaugural Director of the Center for Island Climate Adaptation and Policy (ICAP) at the University of Hawaiʻi Sea Grant College Program. She attended Williams College and Exeter College, Oxford University, and received her law degree from Boalt Hall School of Law at the University of California, Berkeley. Professor Burkett’s courses include Climate Change Law and Policy, Torts, Environmental Law, Race and American Law, and International Development. She has written in the area of Race, Reparations, and Environmental Justice. Currently, her work focuses on “Climate Justice,” writing on the disparate impact of climate change on poor and of-color communities. She has presented her research on Climate Justice throughout the United States and in West Africa, Asia, Europe, and the Caribbean.