She has a PhD in Geography from UCLA and works across political ecology, critical development studies, and science and technology studies. She has been conducting qualitative fieldwork in Southeast Asia, particularly Kalimantan, since 2010 on the political economy of socio-ecological land use change and rural development. She is currently working on a book project on the politics of Indonesia’s peat fires and land restoration. Other research interests include the human health impacts of ecological change and the role of data infrastructures in land investment and environmental surveillance in Myanmar.