Alexis E. Wood

I am researching the growing intersections between climate change, digital geographies, and rural socio-political movements. I am particularly interested in secessionist state movements, and how participants incorporate heightened levels of climate anxiety with existing feelings of rural marginalization in the physical and digital landscapes. I am both a theorist and geospatial analyst, a human geographer and a physical geographer, and look to integrate these often separated fields/specializations through experimental geospatial methods and cartography. You can normally find me in Studio.Geo-? (McCone 106) typing something up or causing some sort of chaos.

Before starting my PhD program, I worked as a Data Coordinator for the Redistricting Data Hub, collecting and processing this redistricting cycle’s Community of Interest (COI) maps. Within this, I take a special interest in mapping platforms and their roles in the American political process. Previously, I have trained as an archeologist at the University of Cambridge ICE and in Opera Performance at the University of Miami.

I am a system-impacted, first-generation high school graduate and a product of the California Community College system, transferring into Berkeley as an undergraduate. In this, I am passionate about helping non-traditional students make their way to university, research, and beyond - please reach out to me with questions about California Community Colleges, the University of California system, and/or these application processes.