Carrie Seay-Fleming

Carrie is an environmental sociologist studying food system transformations in rural communities across the Americas. She received her PhD from the University of Colorado in Boulder and also earned a Master of Social Work from Washington University in St. Louis. Through 2023, her dissertation research was funded by the National Science Foundation to study food security politics in Guatemala. Her research in Guatemala focuses on recent changes in USAID food security programming, which stem from the increasing challenges of climate change and staggering malnutrition rates. She has written about both positive trends in food security politics as well as the limitations of ‘climate-smart’ agriculture and other proposals to address food security in the era of climate change. She is currently a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Arizona’s School of Geography, Development, and Environment.