Maya Weeks

Hello! My name is Maya Weeks. I am a geographer, writer, and artist. My interdisciplinary research focuses on oceans, pollution, gender, and, increasingly, wool production. A more detailed biography of mine is below.

Dr. Maya Weeks is a feminist political ecologist, writer, and artist. She works on oceans, pollution, gender, and biodegradable wool textile production and prioritizes community-engaged research and public scholarship. Maya is a first-generation college student and 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 with a dissertation on marine plastic pollution as a form of economic violence from a feminist environmental justice perspective at the University of California in Davis. Recent poetry has been published in Rabbit and recent nonfiction has been published in Zócalo Public Square. A record, Tethers, is out on Full Spectrum Records. She has performed and exhibited nationally and internationally, most recently at Place Settings and Vague Research Studios. Selected recent artist residencies include The Arctic Circle and Konstepidemin. She is an affiliated researcher at the University of California in Davis Feminist Research Institute and a lecturer at Rutgers University. She is a member of the Scientists' Coalition for an Effective Plastics Treaty and the Geographic Indigenous Futures Collaboratory. Maya loves to surf and is a beginning shepherd; she is an alum of Grazing School of the West, New Cowgirl Camp, and the Hopland Research and Extension Center’s shearing school. She is grateful to live and work on yak titʸu titʸu yak tiłhini Northern Chumash and Salinan land.