Jeff Feng

Project focus: The Fellow will help APS and AAS identify, convene, and coordinate a growing network of professional scientific societies to share knowledge, identify gaps and opportunities, and develop practical frameworks that help scientists engage more meaningfully with communities, policymakers, educators, and publics.

Jeff Feng is a scholar-activist whose research and teaching focus on the intersections of climate justice and queer liberation, environmental justice, and social movements. They examine the contributions of queer, trans, and Two-Spirit activists to fighting climate injustices and analyze how power, privilege, and marginalization shape climate justice policies and movements. They advance climate justice by researching alongside community-based or tribal-serving organizations, such as the Central Coast Climate Justice Network and the Great Lakes Indian Fish & Wildlife Commission, and by teaching courses—Environmental Social Movements, Environmental Justice, and Queer Feminist Climate Justice—that pair students with environmental justice partners to complete collaborative projects. They have published in PS: Political Science & Politics, Energy Research & Social Science, and AAPI Nexus, and contributed to Edward Elgar’s edited volume A Research Agenda for Human Rights. In public-facing work, they have written about queering land politics for YES! Magazine and curated the online Rhizomatic Project based on interviews with queer environmental activists. Most recently, they were a Postdoctoral Scholar at Northwestern University with the STRONG Manoomin Collective. They received their Ph.D., with a doctoral emphasis in feminist studies, and M.A. in political science from the University of California, Santa Barbara, and their A.B. in environmental sciences and policy from Duke University.