Jeff Feng

Northwestern University

Based in

United States
North America

Jeff Feng is a STRONG Manoomin Collective Postdoctoral Scholar at Northwestern University. Their research and teaching focus on the intersections of climate justice and queer liberation, environmental justice, and social movements. They examine the contributions of queer, trans, and Two-Spirit activists to fighting climate injustices and analyze how power, privilege, and marginalization shape climate justice policies and movements. As a scholar-activist, they advance climate justice by researching alongside organizers, such as those in the Central Coast Climate Justice Network, and by teaching courses that pair students with environmental justice partners to complete collaborative projects. They have published in PS: Political Science & Politics, Energy Research & Social Science, and AAPI Nexus and contributed to Edward Elgar’s A Research Agenda for Human Rights edited volume. In public-facing work, they have written about queering land politics for YES! Magazine and curated the online Rhizomatic Project based on interviews with queer environmental activists. They received their M.A. and Ph.D. in political science, with a doctoral emphasis in feminist studies, from the University of California, Santa Barbara, and their A.B. in environmental sciences and policy from Duke University.