Maya B Henderson

My current work sits at the intersection of settler-colonial cities, climate justice, and Indigenous resistance and futures. I aim to understand how climate change and climate actions are enrolled in maintaining and contesting settler-colonial cities. More specifically, I am working to gain insight into how settler-colonial cities enroll climate mitigation efforts and narratives of carbon reduction into the project of settler-colonialism, re-entrenching settler futures at the expense of Indigenous sovereignty and self-determination. However, I maintain that my work must also uplift Indigenous peoples and nations continuous efforts against settler-colonialism, as the project is not complete because we are still here.