Dr. Mollie Holmberg is a Postdoctoral Fellow working on the SSHRC-funded Autistic Knowledge Ecologies project. As a postdoc on this project, she is working to produce, amplify, and connect ecological knowledge opposed to eugenics. More broadly, she is interested in exploring how to center crip knowledge and politics in responses to political ecological crises. This necessarily includes opposition to debilitating settler colonialisms and US-backed militarism, imperialism, and colonization everywhere within and outside North America. Land back, and free Palestine.

Dr. Holmberg holds a PhD in Geography from the University of British Columbia where she was a Vanier Scholar and studied interactions between science, governance, and care in the context of emerging infectious disease response, using USAID’s PREDICT program as a case study. This built on her MA work examining the politics of captive animal care and display at the Vancouver Aquarium’s octopus exhibit. Before graduate school, she earned a Bachelor’s degree in ecology, evolution, and conservation biology and worked in data science forecasting health outcomes at the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) in Seattle. Dr. Holmberg’s work on health and environmental politics has been published in the magazine Edge Effects as well as peer-reviewed journals like Environment and Planning E, Annals of the American Association of Geographers, and The Lancet.