Delilah is a Ph.D. Candidate in Development Studies in Cornell’s Department of Global Development. Her research program combines political ecology and critical island studies to understand the politics and practices of addressing climate change in Fiji. Her dissertation research focuses on the work of mangrove conservation and restoration as both a climate change solution and struggle over belonging within Suva, what is now known as Fiji’s capital and primary port city.

Delilah holds a M.A. in Environmental Law and Policy from Vermont Law School, and a M.Sc. in Environmental Anthropology from Yale University, where she wrote her thesis on the politics of climate-smart soil conservation in Fiji’s western district. Before graduate school she spent 4 years managing organic livstock and mixed vegetable farms, and has worked broadly in the field of global climate change policy for the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN). Delilah’s committee members include Wendy Wolford (chair), Jenny Goldstein, and Fouad Maaki.