Tianna Bruno
…is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Texas at Austin whose work broadly focuses on the intersection of Black geographies and environmental justice. In particular, I study how a Black geographies lens can reframe the discourse around environmental justice communities. My dissertation project, entitled “Environmental Injustice and Black Sense of Place in the Biophysical and Social Afterlife of Slavery” chronicles both anti-Black environmental injustice and Black sense of place in uninhabitable spaces within the afterlife of slavery.
As with my research, my teaching works to highlight the relevance of environmental politics and processes to racial matters and vice versa. In addition to being a teaching assistant and an invited guest speaker in various courses on race in the US and environmental justice, I have also spent several summers working as a community crew member and community crew leader for the Student Conservation Association teaching youth of color about environmental stewardship and environmental justice in their communities.
I am currently a doctoral candidate in the Department of Geography at the University of Oregon. I have a Master of Science in Geography and a BA in International Environmental Studies from Texas A&M University.