Kimberly Marion Suiseeya

Kimberly R. Marion Suiseeya is an Associate Professor of Environmental Policy in the Division of Environmental Social Systems. She is an environmental social scientist with expertise in environmental justice, global environmental politics, Indigenous politics, and community-driven research. Her research examines how Indigenous communities shape and are impacted by multilateral environmental agreements like the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change and the Convention on Biological Diversity. She is a Commission Member of the IUCN’s Commission on Environmental, Economic, and Social Policy, a Research Fellow with the Earth System Governance project, and a member of the Earth System Governance project’s Planetary Justice Taskforce. She is also a faculty affiliate of Northwestern University’s Center for Native American and Indigenous Research. Prior to joining Duke, Kim was an Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at Northwestern University. Kim is also an experienced policy practitioner who has worked and conducted research in Guyana, Laos, Thailand, Myanmar, and the US. Her research is supported by the National Science Foundation and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.