Â鶹ÊÓƵ

Denise is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Environmental Studies (ENVS) at the University of Colorado-Boulder. Her research focuses on energy landscapes and transitions, climate and environmental justice, the reproduction of inequalities and power hierarchies, and its impact on vulnerable and historically marginalized communities in the Global South. For her dissertation, she is studying the financialization of utility-scale solar power plants in Morocco and India, and the ways imperialism thrives during the climate crisis. Denise has been a Graduate Part Time Instructor (GPTI) in the Program for Writing and Rhetoric (PWR) and ENVS where she taught courses on first-year writing and environmental racism. Besides her academic work, she collaborates with interdisciplinary artists to visually portray energy politics and the climate crisis, and she is also a grassroots organizer and activist in the US and India.