Dr. Mara van den Bold is a Postdoctoral Researcher in the Department of Geography & Spatial Sciences at the University of Delaware. Her work focuses on examining justice across the renewable energy supply chain in the U.S. as part of a Sloan Foundation funded research project. Mara obtained her PhD from Clark University in 2023; her dissertation research focused on renewable energy development in Senegal, with a focus on impacts on land and resource use through a case study of a new large-scale wind project. Mara also has 13 years of experience working in international development and research, on issues such as water and sanitation, and food and nutrition security. When not ‘in the office’, she enjoys being outdoors with friends and family.
Dr. Eden Kinkaid (they/them) is a human geographer whose work focuses on sustainable and just food and farming systems and other socio-environmental issues in the US Southwest and (previously) in north India. Their work in this area engages themes of place, development, embodiment, food culture, and environmentalism. Eden is a qualitative social scientist and has published this research in academic journals — including Geoforum, Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, and Urban Geography — and applied formats, including community-facing research reports. Their interest in embodiment and environments extends to their work on queer ecologies and other critical ecologies and environmentalisms. Eden has also developed their interest in embodiment through feminist, queer, and trans geographies and critical phenomenology. You can learn more about their various areas of work on their personal website.
