Environmental & Social Justice

Jadda is a Bellwether Postdoctoral Scholar at UC Berkeley’s School of Information, where she partners with Ohlone youth and cultural leaders to co-design mixed-reality exhibits. Alongside this work, she continues the community-based research she co-developed in Maui, Hawaiʻi, exploring how students engage with Kānaka ʻŌiwi (Native Hawaiian) biocultural knowledge alongside Western science in environmental and wildfire mitigation education. Broadly, her work centers Indigenous epistemologies, place-based education, and epistemic justice in environmental and science education.

Maddie Taylor is a disabled researcher studying climate change impacts on disabled communities, committed to producing work that centers disabled people as experts whose knowledge should inform climate adaptation.