Emme Christie, M.Phil, Ph.D (ABD)
Emme is a queer and trans environmental activist-scholar who works along the contours of queerness and environmental identity. Emme is currently wrapping up their PhD (as a Fulbright Scholar) and SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry. As a critical environmental sociologist, Emme's research involves an inquiry into the formation of national and community-level environmental identities through mixed-methods surveys of environmental histories and present practices of environmental discourse and governance. Emme also does research and advocacy in health equity specifically as it impacts trans people as well as how LGBTQ+ peoples experience climate change and the environment.
Emme is also an environmental, climate change, and human rights activist and a Director at the Jamaica Climate Change Youth Council.