I am a transdisciplinary scholar, storyteller, and educator at the intersection of ecology, spirituality, and culture. Born and raised in a multicultural family in South Africa, I identify as a transnational scholar who is part of the Global Majority, encompassing both human and more-than-human communities.

 

My work explores the environmental significance of decolonial and Indigenous perspectives on multispecies ontology, more-than-human personhood, and cultural sovereignty. My teaching interests include decolonial methods and pedagogy, environmental studies and anthropology, ecology and religion, and Indigenous lifeways. 

Before completing my Ph.D., I spent twenty years working in social documentaries, environmental media, and agricultural communications across Africa, Southwest Asia, Southeast Asia, and Europe. I served as a visiting assistant professor of anthropology at Randolph-Macon College in Virginia and am adjunct faculty at the California Institute of Integral Studies and Pacifica Graduate Institute in California.

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I reside in Virginia, on the traditional homelands and waterways of the Monacan Indian Nation.