Sophia Carodenuto
Associate Professor in the UVic Geography Department
Sophia (she/her) leads the Environmental Governance Group and serves as Director of UVic’s Global Development Studies program. A political geographer, her research demonstrates how land and forest resources are embedded in sustainability and equity processes at multiple scales, with a particular focus on global to local interactions. Her work on global food systems and supply chains sits at the intersection of public policy, corporate accountability, and environmental justice. She brings these themes into the classroom, most notably through the Agroecology Field School in Belize, where students engage directly with the social, ecological, and political dimensions of food systems.
Before joining UVic, she was a Fellow at the University of Oxford’s Institute for New Economic Thinking (INET) and a Visiting Scholar at Yale University’s School of Forestry and Environmental Studies. From 2012 to 2016, she was based in Cameroon, where she established and managed a regional hub for UNIQUE land use covering Central and West Africa.
Sophia lives in Victoria, where she enjoys baking, yoga, and exploring Vancouver Island and the surrounding Gulf Islands, often through camping adventures with her family.
Please visit sophiacarodenuto.com for more information.
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