Lindsay Shade, Red Natural History Fellow
Lindsay is an environmental sociologist with a focus on extractive industries, environmental justice, land politics, and public revenues. Their work draws from popular education traditions to engage grassroots stakeholders in southern Appalachia and northern Ecuador to address community problems related to land. Lindsay also utilizes geospatial analysis to visualize land ownership inequality, promote land return with the Appalachian Rekindling Project, and track and resist carceral expansion in Appalachia with the Building Community Not Prisons coalition. Since 2016, they have helped to build the Appalachian Land Study collective, which links together diverse land justice struggles to study and transform land ownership while building up movement infrastructure.