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Samantha is a graduate student in cultural anthropology at the University of Oregon. Samantha’s research is broadly concerned with the intersection of political ecology, discourse, and gender in the Windward Islands of the Eastern Caribbean. Specifically, she is interested in the interplay between ideas and practices of sustainable development and existing systems of food production and consumption as well as how such interactions influence and influenced by gender. Her current research on the island of Dominica focuses on women’s networks of food production and their relationship to sustainable development. This research seeks to understand and contextualize the sustainable development processes at work in Dominica and the ways in which such initiatives are changing and are changed by Dominican society, particularly as represented through the lives of women engaged in the agricultural economy.