Lena Easton-Calabria

Lena Easton-Calabria is a geographer and Doctoral Researcher at the University of Oxford's Environmental Change Institute. Easton-Calabria previously spent over three years studying ethnobotany and the impacts of climate change on indigenous communities of the Amazon rainforest in Peru and Bolivia, part of the time as a National Geographic Explorer. After seeing the human and environmental devastation of gold extraction up close, she became passionate about understanding the roots of this issue and is taking a unique approach to this topic in her doctoral research.

Easton-Calabria has also conducted research across the United States on topics such as climate adaptation, extreme heat, and stormwater pollution in Washington, DC, New Orleans, and Baltimore. Her work (some of it collaborative) has been published by The Messenger, the RAND Corporation, and various journals including Disaster Prevention and Management. Easton-Calabria has also presented at the American Meteorological Society's annual conference, the American Geophysical Union/American Meteorological Society Climate and Health Showcase, and the Society of Ethnobiology's annual conference, among others.

With a BA in Medical Anthropology and Global Health from the University of Washington and a Master of Science in Environmental Change and Management from the University of Oxford, where she graduated with Distinction, Easton-Calabria has an extensive academic and research background at the intersection of sustainability, climate change, and health. She will graduate with her PhD in Geography and the Environment from the University of Oxford in 2026.

November 2023