Kishi Animashaun Ducre is associate professor in African American Studies (AAS) in the College of Arts & Sciences. She recently served as co-director of the Center for Global Indigenous Cultures and Environmental Justice. She is a former AAS chair and associate dean of diversity, equity, and inclusion. She has authored works on environmental justice, feminism, and community-based research, including a book A Place We Call Home: Gender, Race, and Justice in Syracuse and co-edited volume entitled, Addressing Environmental and Food Justice Toward Dismantling the School-to-Prison Pipeline: Poisoning and Imprisoning Youth. She has also curated photography exhibitions based upon her community-based arts research known as photovoice in New York, California, and Trinidad and Tobago.
Dr. Ducre’s first career was as a toxics campaigner for Greenpeace USA. She combines her experiences on the frontlines of the environmental justice movement and academic training in geography and environmental sociology for contributions in the field of Black feminist geographies
