Loka Ashwood (PhD 2015) received a McArthur Fellowship

Loka Ashwood becomes a MacArthur Fellow.Loka Ashwood received her PhD in Sociology in 2015. Less than a decade later, the McArthur Foundation has named her a Fellow in the Class of 2024. Her work develops action-centered methodologies that help frontline communities overcome environmental injustices and strengthen democracy.

Loka joined with four co-authors to write Empty Fields, Empty Promises: A State-by-State Guide to Transforming and Understanding the Right to Farm.