Anissa S. Camacho (She, Her) is a PhD student in the Sociology department of UC Berkeley. Her research examines social vulnerabilities of marginalized communities, colonial development, health disparities, nationalism/sovereignty, and living in a climate crisis from a qualitative lens. She is currently researching the destruction of natural protectant landscapes for development in Chicago and Puerto Rico, and the importance of interspecies relationships of society and nature in knowledge production for climate resilience.

Anissa holds both a B.A. in Anthropology and Latin American and Latino Studies and an M.A. in Latin American and Latino Studies with a concentration in Black Studies from the University of Illinois, Chicago.