MA from Columbia University investigating themes of food, identity, borders, and health, as she worked in Ladakh, India, examining the effects that the mechanization of agriculture is having on socio-ecological resiliency in collaborative agrarian communities. She currently lives between the Middle East and Portugal, as she writes my PhD thesis on issues of borders and mobility in the West Bank examining topics of land, agriculture, governance, and state formation in settler colonial societies. Her research and personal life are intertwined, as she is working with Palestinian and Israeli communities to establish alternative land-based communities and gatherings, to build the capacity to not only talk about the problems of this land, but build an alternative one, together.