Resident Faculty, Martinez Commons
tbruno@berkeley.edu
Tianna Bruno is an assistant professor in the Department of Geography at the University of California, Berkeley. Her research focuses on the intersection of Black geographies, critical environmental justice, political ecology, and critical physical geography. Through her work, she aims to foreground Black life, sense of place, and relationships to the environment within spaces of present-day environmental injustice. Her research also highlights the mutual experiences of degradation and survival between subaltern communities and their surrounding ecologies through the integration of Black geographies and critical physical geography, specifically analyzing trees. This research and book project is currently focused on Texas, and will soon expand to various locations across the Black diaspora. Tianna’s work broadly related to environmental justice has been published in scholarly journals, such as Society and Space, Professional Geographer, and the Annals of the American Association of Geography.