Kindra Jesse De’Arman

Dr. Kindra Jesse De’Arman is an Assistant Professor of Environment and Sustainability. She is a settler who engages in social science research on federal land management decision-making. Her research explores the structure, culture, and organizational processes that lead to environmental decline on federally managed lands. She orients this work within environmental justice and settler colonial theory and is engaged with re-righting social-environmental relations. Kindra also coordinates the Climate Action Planning emphasis within the Environment and Sustainability major. Through this work, she learns about community sustainability initiatives and explores local partnerships and internship opportunities for students. Kindra believes that students are indispensable and have a voice and power in their social-environmental world. It is her goal to tease that out.

Courses Taught:

• ENVS 100 Introduction to Environmental Studies
• ENVS 250 Environmental Justice
• ENVS 301 Science of Sustainability and Resilience
• ENVS 320 Quantitative Skills for Climate Action Planning
• MEM 623 Environmental Justice

Publications

• De’Arman, Kindra Jesse, Alissa Cordner, and Jill Ann Harrison. 2023. “Workplace Tentativity: Biophysical Environmental Impacts on Outdoor Work.” Environmental Sociology 10(2):237-252.
• De’Arman, Kindra Jesse and Richard York. 2021. “‘Society-Ready’ and ‘Fire-Ready’ Forestry Education in the United States: Interdisciplinary Discussion in Forestry Course Textbooks.” Journal of Forestry 119(3):236-250.
• De’Arman, Kindra Jesse. 2020. “Is Public Participation Public Inclusion? The role of comments in US Forest Service decision-making.” Environmental Management 66(1):91-104.

Website: https://kindradearman.com