I began working as the Assistant Director of The Earth League, embedded at Arizona State University’s Julie Ann Wrigley Global Futures Laboratory, at the beginning of 2025.

The Earth League is a voluntary alliance between leading scientists and institutions working on planetary processes and sustainability issues. Please read our new landmark publication.

Voice Unheard: Arizona’s Environmental History collaborated with Alisha Vasquez and Dr. Sunaura Taylor on the new Living with Injury exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Tucson. The exhibition runs from November 14, 2025, to June 2026.

(Photo: left, Denise Moreno Ramírez and right, Candice Duncan cataloging soil cores at the Three Hangers property at the Tucson Airport)

I received a Medical Anthropology minor with a doctoral degree in Soil, Water, and Environmental Science. This Medical Anthropology minor allows me to successfully implement qualitative methods when studying communities impacted by environmental contamination. I focused on methods such as oral history, creative communications, and community engagement.

In 2023, I received the “distinguished” President’s Postdoctoral Fellowship. This fellowship will enable me to establish the Climate Heritage ILLuminated in Arizona or CHILL AZ Project in southern Arizona's Madrean Sky Island region. I will study the application of local knowledge, rural museums as hubs of climate knowledge, and augmented reality/video immersion communication tools.

Read about what is happening at my first site, the Patagonia Mountains.

Researchers in the Ivory Tower who want to reach wider audiences outside those already in tune with the usual publishing channels can do so via do-it-yourself communication tools that theoretically democratize information. Podcasting is one of these valuable tools.

I did it! I am officially a published writer in Environmental Health News. It has been a dream to write personal narratives that colocate research topics of interest. There is so much more to do outside the Ivory Tower…

Voices Unheard X Landmark Stories will be at the University of Arizona’s Wonderhourse at SXSW® from March 10th until March 19th in Austin, TX. Yippee ki-yay…

It’s official. I am a 2022-2023 Agent of Change in Environmental Justice Fellowship recipient. The mission of the program is to empower emerging leaders from historically excluded backgrounds in science and academia to reimagine solutions for a just and healthy planet.

Dorsey Kaufmann is a conceptual artist who deliberates environmental justice themes through her art. I took part in her latest creative communication series.

I am collaborating with Sandra Westdahl, Senior Producer and Editor of Landmark Stories, to narrate the story of my dissertation research at the Tucson International Airport Area Superfund Site.

This reflection deliberates researcher reflexivity, the culture of the environmentalist, and memories from the academe. I am currently working on this piece with my writing mentor Dr. Christopher Cokinos, Professor of English at The University of Arizona.