Tamara Layden
Multicultural South Asian (Indian)
Pronouns: she/they
Positions(s):
Graduate Collaborator & Scholar, Indigenous Land & Data Stewards Lab, Colorado State University
Tamara is an Ecology doctoral candidate at Colorado State University and collaborator with the Indigenous Lands & Data Stewards Lab. Tamara’s work focuses on the implementation of ethics to improve research relations in natural resource science and strengthen Indigenous conservation governance. Tamara’s lens is informed by their multicultural and global identity as a descendant of displaced South Asian farmers and land stewards, with an overall interest in disrupting settler colonial and capitalist norms embedded within the field, to re-orient towards the recovery, resurgence, and reclamation of Indigenous connections to place through research, policy, and action. Read more about Tamara’s work via their personal website.
Publication(s):
David-Chavez, D. & Layden, T. (2022). Beginning at the beginning: Unburdening & healing our histories. Indigenous Land and Data Stewards Lab. https://www.indigenouslandstewards.org/resource-hub-blogs/beginning-at-the-beginning-unburdening-and-healing-our-histories
Email me: Tamara.Layden@Colostate.edu