April Karen Baptiste

A. Karen Baptiste, a national of The Republic of Trinidad and Tobago, and Fulbright Scholar, completed her Ph.D. in Environmental and Natural Resource Policy from State University of New York, College of Environmental Science and Forestry in 2008. She graduated from the University of the West Indies, St. Augustine, Trinidad with a B.Sc. in Chemistry and Management in 2002 and a M.Sc. in Environmental Management in 2004. Her research interests are in environmental justice, environmental psychology, livelihoods analysis, the rural poor and oil and gas studies. Her current research looks at the intersection between environmental psychology and environmental justice in an attempt to understand the factors that shape environmental actions and environmentalism within the Caribbean region. Having recently completed a Ford Foundation Post-doctoral Fellow in the African American Studies Department at Syracuse University, she is now an Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies at Colgate University.