maya weeks

Hi! My name is Maya. I’m an environmental justice practitioner and artist. I work physically and strategically on land and water. My research background is in marine plastic pollution and gender, and some of my areas of work include good fire, prescribed grazing, and land back.

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

Dr. Maya Weeks is an applied critical geographer, writer, and artist from the rural Central Coast of California whose work focuses on wellbeing across species through lands and waters. The first in her family to go to college, 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 from a feminist environmental justice perspective. Recent poetry has been published in Space on Space 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). Recent artist residencies include The Arctic Circle and Konstepidemin. She is the Director of Outreach and Development at the California Public Domain Allottee Association, an affiliated researcher at the University of California in Davis, and a member of the Geographic Indigenous Futures Collaboratory. Maya loves to surf and is in training as a shepherd. She is grateful to be a guest living and working on Northern Chumash and Salinan land.