puyang and me 2001 Diana Pei Wu                                                dianawu@nature.berkeley.edu

3028 Harper Street, Berkeley, CA 94703                                                                                          (510) 841-1480                    
 


Status:
 Currently looking for work in environmental justice while deciding whether or not to (a) stay in academia or leave permanently and (b) conduct thesis research in Oaxaca, Mexico or domestically in the US.  Planting kale and lavender in the garden.  Writing a handbook of case studies on ecommunity monitoring of toxics in the environmental and public health.
 




  

Years
Institution
Education:
1999 - present
Ph.D candidate, University of California, Berkeley
Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management
"Multiracial and multiethnic coalitions in scaling up environmental politics: the US environmental justice movement"

1997 - 1999
M.A., Princeton University
Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

1991 - 1995
B.Sc., Duke University
Biology


Publications:

Turner, Robin Lanette and Diana Pei Wu.  2002.  Environmental Justice and Environmental Racism:  An Annotated Bibliography with General Overview, focusing on the U.S. Literature, 1996-2002.  Berkeley, CA, Berkeley Workshop on Environmental Politics, Institute for International Studies, University of California, Berkeley.  134 pp.  Available for free download at http://globetrotter.berkeley.edu/EnvirPol/Bib/B07-TurnerWu.pdf
Wu, Diana Pei, Mathew Henn, David Quist, Matteo Garbelotto and Ignacio Chapela. 2000. From the Roots: An Underground Perspective on Traditional Agriculture, Forest Regeneration and Conservation. In Leigh, M (ed). Borneo 2000: Environment, Conservation and Land (v.3). Kuching, Sarawak, 346-357.

Working Groups:
Graduate Student Working Group on Race, Racialization and Racism in Environmental Studies.  Co-founder, Fall 2002 to present.  Loosely, this is a collective of graduate students who went to the People of Color Environmental Leadereship Summit in October of 2002, in Washington D.C.  We are interested in environmental justice, as a movement, and as an analytical framework..

Racialized Environments, Naturalized Difference.  Co-founder and facilitator.  2002 to present.  Funded by the Berkeley Workshop on Environmental Politics.  Interdisciplinary graduate working group on theoretical issues around race and nature, and a workshop for graduate students and community members to improve works around environmental justice. We meet once or twice a month, sometimes more if necessary.  Members include or have included students from ESPM, ERG, Anthropology, History, Geography, City and Regional Planning and Political Science as well as activist-scholars from outside UC.

Indigenous Mapping Working Group.  Member.  2002.  Theoretical and practical issues around mapping as a tactic in struggles over land and livelihood.  Funded by the Berkeley Workshop on Environmental Politics.

Working Group on Indigenous Peoples, Forests and Trade.  1999 - 2000.  Co-founder and facilitator.  Theoretical issues at the nexus of conflict and synergy between WTO and international trade, indigenous land rights and forests and conservation.
           
Presentations:
Environmental Justice.  ESPM 10.  Feb 18, 2003.  University of California, Berkeley.

Racism as an analytic in scientific research.  ESPM 201A.  November 19, 2002.  University of California, Berkeley.

The role of technology in indigenous struggles over land and livelihood in Sarawak, Malaysia.  Human Rights Center Summer Fellows Symposium.  October 2001.

Indigenous struggles over land and livelihood in Sarawak, Malaysia.  
ESPM 168.  Spring 2001.  University of California, Berkeley.

Penn-Princeton Retreat.  Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Princeton University.  Spring 1999.   "The Tragedy of  Commons Thinking: When is the Tragedy of the Commons the wrong model for conservation?"
Princeton University Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology.  Fall 1998.   "Succession after fire in Brazilian cerrado."

Posters:

Center for Tropical Forest Science, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute.  May 31 to June 2, 2000.  Singapore.     "From the Roots: A belowground perspective on traditional agriculture, forest regeneration and conservation."

Volunteer Work:

The Borneo Project
, Active Committee.  Since 1999.
Santa Clara Center for Occupational Safety and Health (SCCOSH).  Since 2002.


Grants, Fellowships and Scholarships
  • Human Rights Center Summer Fellow 2001.  $3000.  
  • Center for Southeast Asian Studies Grant-in-Aid.  2001.  $950.
  • Sigma Xi Grant-in-Aid of Research.  2000.  $650.
  • Berkeley Fellowship.  1999.  Three year university fellowship awarded to incoming students in graduate programs.  $13,000 / yr.
  • National Science Foundation Predoctoral Dissertation Fellowship.  1997.  

Language abilities:

Language
Spoken
Reading
Written
Spanish
Fluent
Fluent
Fluent
Portuguese
Advanced
Near Fluent
Near Fluent
Mandarin Chinese
Advanced/Near fluent
Advanced
Advanced
French
Advanced
Advanced
Advanced

Professional Memberships:

International Association for the Study of Common Property
(IASCP)
American Association of Geographers
monkeyme

Other interests:

Capoeira Narahari
-- with Mestre Beicola.
Chinese Folk Dance; Art and Revolution with my AAPI and POC folks.