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Faculty and Staff Researchers

Mae Davenport (she/her)

CCL Director and Professor

Email: [email protected]
Phone: 612-624-2721

Focus: Community-engaged science; policy and management for water protection, climate resilience, and environmental justice

Emily Kreiter (she/her)

Researcher 5

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Focus: Water resource protection in urban areas, tribal lands, and agricultural lands

Jessie Merriam (she/her)

Community-Engaged Research Coordinator

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Phone: (706) 207-9944

Focus: Public history of land use, political ecology, and cultural engagement

Amit Pradhananga

Researcher and Professor

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Phone: 612-624-6726

Focus: Human and policy dimensions of natural resources in the context of water resources, invasive species, parks and trails management, and climate change adaptation

Emma Johnson (she/her)

Research Assistant

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Focus: Accessible and culturally relevant environmental education

Graduate Student Researchers

Hannah Jo King (they/she)

Ph.D. Candidate and Research Assistant

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Focus: Manoomin/Psiŋ (Wild Rice) in the Great Lakes and Black-Native land solidarities

Giovanni Delgado-Ortiz (he/him)

Graduate Research Assistant

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Focus: Federal environmental policy; community planning frameworks; tribal law

Jessica Tran (she/her)

Ph.D. Candidate

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Focus: Environmental justice; Indigenous natural resource management; sense of place; social impacts of climate change

Undergraduate Research Assistants

Malachi O'Reilly (he/they)

Undergraduate Research Assistant

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Focus: Intersections between people, plants, and place as they relate to food sovereignty and other aspects of environmental justice

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