Jacqueline Canchola-Martinez's senior honors project, por vida // for life: an embodied geographic approach to environmental (in)justice using photo & sound, seeks to investigate Latinx life carved out in the face of rural environmental injustices in Tulare County – located in the Central Valley of California. Working closely with faculty mentors Tianna Bruno and Joel Wanek, and following the lead of Black feminist geographers, Canchola-Martinez's project foregrounds relations to land and notions of “home” that exist despite eco-degradation caused by corporations & state neglect. Canchola-Martinez received research funding to support their project through the College of Natural Resources Travel Grant, a LIFT Arts Development Grant from the UC Berkeley Arts Research Center, and the Brian Gialketsis SERQueer Scholarship for queer individuals in the environmental field.
Congrats, Jacqueline!