I am a Ph.D. student in Forest Science at Michigan Technological University. My research interests are livelihood resilience, bridging Indigenous knowledges with Western Science, sustainability, and human dimensions in natural resources management. I am doing research both in the U.S. and Vietnam focusing on the livelihood of forest-dependent households and tree-planting decisions.
My dissertation is conducted as a research partnership with the Keweenaw Bay Indian Community, funded by the USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture McIntire-Stennis, to understand the relationship between Ojibwe people and forests and their resiliency.
I am a Ph.D. student in Forest Science at Michigan Technological University. My research interests are livelihood resilience, bridging Indigenous knowledges with Western Science, sustainability, and human dimensions in natural resources management. I am doing research both in the U.S. and Vietnam focusing on the livelihood of forest-dependent households and tree-planting decisions.
My dissertation is conducted as a research partnership with the Keweenaw Bay Indian Community, funded by the USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture McIntire-Stennis, to understand the relationship between Ojibwe people and forests and their resiliency.
A graduate fellowship with AFOCO helped to fund my Master's study in Kookmin University, South Korea, exploring the communication strategies in reforestation participation. During my study, I have been working with more than 700 stakeholders, mostly rural households, tree planters, forest rangers, and hunters. Before that, I worked as a Field Researcher at Save Vietnam's Wildlife.
