Kieren Rudge

University of California, Berkeley

Based in

United States
North America

Kieren is a doctoral student in Environmental Science, Policy, & Management at University of California, Berkeley. Their research interests lie at the intersection of climate adaptation, critical race theory, and critical environmental justice. Before coming to UC Berkeley, Kieren researched climate policy, planning, and discourse across various geographies within the continental United States, as well as in the U.S. Virgin Islands. Currently, they are focused on analyzing how systems of climate change adaptation are situated within military colonial power structures and may reproduce environmental injustice in U.S. territories. They are primarily studying how these dynamics impact communities in Guåhan (Guam) considering how political status impacts self-determination of Indigenous peoples with regard to climate action.