My research focuses on how historical and on-going racial and economic injustices interact with forms of environmental and climate governance within coastal landscapes. My current fieldwork explores how coastal management and climate adaptation intersects with gentrification pressures in the small city of Asbury Park, NJ. In particular, I am examining how those fighting for housing and environmental justice connect ongoing racialized displacement with historical patterns of segregation and discrimination as well as articulate a vision for the future that is more just and sustainable. Conceptually, I seek to untangle questions relating to how gentrification becomes embedded within particular socioecological places; how activists and communities create the conditions to de-commodify housing and green spaces; and how the state responds to demands for affordable housing and public green spaces. Conceptually, I draw upon approaches in urban political ecology, community economies, Black geographies, and science and technology studies. I have published within journals such as Geoforum, Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space, the Professional Geographer, and the Journal of Extreme Events. At Dartmouth, I teach courses on political geography, urban geography, the geo-humanities, and economic geography.