Gardiner Brown is a doctoral student in the University of California, Berkeley Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management. He also holds a master’s in environmental humanities from the University of Utah. His research lies at the intersections of critical disaster studies and critical disability studies, and he’s especially compelled by research projects that let him apply his background as both a social scientist and humanities scholar. His scholarly writing has previously been published in Edge Effects, and his personal essays have appeared in Blue Mesa Review and Burrow Press Review.