maya weeks

Hi! My name is Maya. I am an artist with a research-based practice, and a social scientist who uses qualitative and creative methods. I work on socio-ecological issues from a liberation perspective. A more detailed biography is below.

Interested in having me guest lecture in your classroom, lead a workshop for a group, or confer with you about feminist or creative approaches to science? Send me a message!

Dr. Maya Weeks is a white settler writer, artist, and geographer from California working on feminist environmental justice with qualitative and creative methods. A first-generation college student, she holds her B.A. in Language Studies (Spanish) from the University of California in Santa Cruz and her M.F.A. in Creative Writing (Poetry) from Mills College. She earned her Ph.D. in Geography at the University of California in Davis, where she wrote her dissertation on marine pollution, gender, and feminist political economy. Recent poetry has been published in Paperbark and recent nonfiction has been published in Zócalo Public Square. A record, Tethers, is out on Full Spectrum Records. She has exhibited at at Vague Research Studios and performed at Historical Materialism. She is the author of a poetry chapbook, How to Be on the Outside of Every Inside/How to Be Inside Every Outside (these signals press, 2016). She is currently the Outreach Manager at the California Public Domain Allottee Association. In her free time, she surfs and studies small ruminant husbandry with the goal of caring for a flock of sheep. Maya lives and works on unceded Chumash land.