I’m a historian, author, and environmental justice scholar. My research focuses on the intersection of labor, immigration, and the American environmental movement — the work of building, maintaining, and stewarding the land that is so often left out of the story.
My scholarship centers on communities that have been historically overlooked in environmental history. Chinese laborers who helped construct the infrastructure of the national parks. Mexican American workers who built trails and shaped land stewardship across the West. Japanese Americans who maintained environmental labor even during wartime confinement. The broader immigrant labor force whose contributions to the outdoors remain largely unrecognized. My work draws from archival research and a commitment to making this history accessible beyond the academy.
About Stevie
Stewards of the Land Is the Culmination of This Work
Years of archival research tracing the people who built, maintained, and fought for the land we all share. It’s the story I’ve spent my career trying to tell.
“By presenting the long history of environmental labor, my primary goal is to shatter ahistorical assumptions that presume Asian Americans, Chicana/os and American Indians are new to the environmental movement.”
Let’s Get in Touch
Interested in hosting a talk, reading, or workshop? I welcome inquiries from universities, bookstores, libraries, museums, and environmental organizations.