- M.Sc. in the Institute for Resources, Environment, and Sustainability, University of British Columbia, 2023
- B.A. (Hons.) Geography, University of California, Berkeley, 2021
Bio
Kat (they/she) completed their Master of Arts in the Institute of Resources, Environment, and Sustainability in 2023, supervised by Dr. Hannah Wittman. Kat is currently a B.C. Land Matching Program Coordinator with Young Agrarians. Her research interests include agroecology, food sovereignty, arts-based activism, labour relations, solidarity and reciprocity economies, and Indigenous sovereignty and decolonization movements. Kat’s work in the Food Sovereignty Research Group uses arts-based storytelling to explore the relationship between agroecology and well-being for agroecological farmers in the northern Ecuadorian Andes (Imbabura), where she collaborates with the Ecuadorian Movement for Social and Solidarity Economy.
Kat has worked and lived on farms in the United States, Latin America, and Europe. Kat is also a certified community herbalist. She continues to serve as a member of the agroecological Executive Committee of the Foundation for the Islands of Old Providence and Santa Catalina (FIOPSC). Kat lives as a settler of English, Ashkenazi Jewish, and Raizal descent on unceded xʷməθkʷəy̓əm territory.
Master’s Thesis
Cultivating collective freedom: agroecology as a way of life for autonomy and good relations