ePortfolio & Blog
My Academic & Research Interests
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Systems approaches to achieving environmental, social, and economic justice and sustainability in the Anthropocene / Capitalocene
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Degrowth, heterodox economics, and ‘nowtopias' -realizing a more democratic, decolonized, emancipatory, and ecological economy
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Social movements and community development as mechanisms for societal transformation
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Intersection of Blue Marble Evaluation (BME) and Equitable Evaluation (EE) praxis
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Contemporary pedagogy and experiential learning in higher education
Transformation means dramatic, radical change on a global scale. It means transforming energy consumption, agriculture, power structures, distribution of resources and wealth and creating fundamentally different relationships between human beings and the environment to achieve both sustainability and greater equity for the people of the world. It means everyone doing their part wherever we find ourselves.
Michael Quinn Patton, in Blue Marble Evaluation
My Work
I am currently employed as a graduate assistant at Virginia Tech's ​Center for International Research, Education, and Development (CIRED). I serve as the technical coordinator for the monitoring and evaluation efforts of the USAID-funded Feed the Future Senegal, Youth in Agriculture (YIA) program. The YIA program is directed by my advisor, Dr. Thomas Archibald. For more information about YIA, check out our webpage!
