I am an applied cultural anthropologist who examines themes of environmental crisis, precarious labor, and public health from the perspective of political ecology. My most recent research in Andes-Amazonia and Central America centers on how polluted waterscapes relate to people’s insecurity, instability, and well-being. Current research interests include: environmental health, illicit economies of labor, polluted waterscapes, ecological embodiment, disposability and precarity, critical discard studies, infrastructures, migration and work, green economies, surfing and public health, the Anthropocene, and urban ecologies.