I’m a second-year master’s student using feminist political economy and political ecology approaches to study clean energy manufacturing in the South and Appalachia.

My master’s thesis examines how development agendas in the state of Kentucky are being revised and remobilized during the energy transition. In this project, I focus on local and state experiences with and around the Toyota manufacturing plant in Georgetown, Kentucky.

In other ongoing projects, I analyze household energy insecurity in the South and explore the challenges and opportunities that green industrial policy creates for labor around the world.