Adrian Cato (She/They)Ph.D. Candidate (2022 Cohort)

Adrian Cato is an interdisciplinary scholar whose dissertation focuses on the long legacy of environmental injustice, coastal conservation, and ecological science in the archipelagic region of coastal Georgia. She is invested in complex narratives that present the duality of the ocean, as a site of historical trauma for the African Diaspora and a place of Black liberation and multi-species kinship. Adrian has earned a BA in Environmental Science & Policy from Duke University, an MA in Marine Affairs from the University of Rhode Island, and an MA in African American Studies from Emory University. Her work exists at the intersection of Black Ecologies, Black feminist geographies, and political ecology to articulate a framework towards Black feminist political ecology. Adrian's writing has been featured in the Society for Cultural Anthropology – Field Insights, the Hydrological Sciences Journal, and the book Oceans as Archives.