Ame Min-Venditti

Ame is interested in intersectional liberatory futures particularly pertaining to water in arid and coastal communities. During their PhD, Ame has come to study Indigenous knowledges, power, values, and trauma and how they relate to adaptation of water narratives and relations with water in a changing climate. Ame employs an action research framework, and has collaborated with communities in resistance across continents. Their work has used methods such as photovoice, participatory exploratory scenario planning, found poetry, and rhetorical criticism. As a doctoral student, Ame has worked with Indigenous scholars and won a USGS Water research grant with the American Indian Studies department to train students to write opinion pieces expressing their water stories. Further, they have crossed disciplinary thresholds to immerse themselves in social work, transborder studies, and communication theories and methods. Ame has worked on two collective embodiment projects, as well as an art and sustainability water conservation social media campaign. Ame's work is situated at the nexus of political ecology, critical geography, and environmental human sciences.

Ame's former graduate work focused on public policy, ecohydrology, and socioecological systems analysis in Latin American forest extractivism contexts. Ame's background was previously ecology, and they've conducted fieldwork in desert, tropical forest, and pineland ecosystems. Ame also has laboratory experience in genetics, plant physiology, immunotherapy, and functional genomics.

As an intersectional white-passing mixed-race person of color, Ame finds joy in diverse community building. Ame identifies as a queer non binary person who has lived across Latin America and is fluent in Peruvian Spanish. Ame enjoys writing poetry, contra dancing, travel, hiking and most other artistic and outdoors hobbies.