MEDIA & PRESS
Press Release: “Imagining Climate Futures, Anthology II” Gallery Exhibition Opening, Climate Futures Studio & NYC Climate Week
Curated and announced “Imagining Climate Futures,” a multidisciplinary exhibition presented as an official Climate Week NYC event at Queens Council on the Arts. The show featured 18 original works by the 2025 Climate Storytelling 2075 cohort, spanning media from video and sound to textiles and data driven visuals, each offering bold, justice rooted visions of 2075 grounded in optimism.
“Strike the Heart:” The Role of Artivism in Climate Advocacy
Moderated public conversation with human rights activist and environmental justice leader Kumi Naidoo, former Secretary General of Amnesty International, and climate justice journalist Yessenia Funes, editor at large of Atmos, on climate communication strategies that bypass the brain to strike the heart. Together, we explored the role of art and activism in the climate justice movement as a way to shift public imagination by making the abstract personal, transforming despair into courage, and helping movements sustain pressure against extractive systems.
Press Release: "Imagining Climate Futures, Anthology I" Gallery Exhibition Opening, Climate Futures Studio
Exhibition curator for the inaugural “Imagining Climate Futures,” presented at Queens Council on the Arts. The exhibition brought the first Climate Storytelling 2075 anthology into a shared public space, inviting audiences into climate futures shaped by the guiding question: “What if we get it right?”
Published Report: “Strategies for Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion in Ocean Sciences”
California Ocean Science Trust announced the release of the final proceedings report from five integrative roundtables, convening with leaders across California’s coastal and ocean science community. The report summarizes three “braided strategies” which include (I) sustained investment for system change, (II) supporting accountable and equitable ocean science, and (III) fostering community and connection; to read the full report: [PDF].
“What Non-Monogamy Can Teach Us About Climate Advocacy,” CurrentlyHQ Interview
Interview exploring how relationship ethics, care, and accountability offer lessons for sustaining climate advocacy and practicing collective responsibility, treating climate work as relational work.
NOAA Fisheries Research Spotlight: “Robert J. Dellinger Celebrates National Hispanic Heritage Month”
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration profile highlighting Robert J. Dellinger’s research internship experience and reflections on identity as a Latinx marine scientist during National Hispanic Heritage Month.
UC Davis Commencement 2021: “Marine and Coastal Science Graduate Spotlight”
Featured graduate spotlight from the UC Davis Coastal and Marine Sciences Institute highlighting my path into marine and coastal science . The profile also notes my MCS Senior Award, Department Citation, recognizing my academic and departmental contributions alongside interdisciplinary training.
Guest Post: Kitchen Oceanography Blog, "Overturning Circulation"
Guest post on Dr. Mirjam Glessmer’s Kitchen Oceanography blog featuring an experiment that uses everyday kitchen materials to explain overturning circulation and make the physical processes that drive ocean circulation easier to understand and more accessible.
Political Review: "Slavery in Thailand’s Fishing Industry"
An international political analysis published in Davis Political Review exposing forced labor and human trafficking within Thailand’s fishing industry, where migrant workers are trapped in exploitative conditions to sustain global seafood supply chains. The article traces how economic pressures and weak regulation drive human rights abuses and connects these labor injustices to the broader political and economic systems that enable extractive exploitation.
Political Review: "Our Crude Awakening"
Policy analysis published in Davis Political Review reviewing the 2018 offshore drilling expansion plan, arguing that reversing post-Deepwater Horizon safeguards would amplify environmental risk.