Research Fellow
Email: coyotecatlcontreras@ucsb.edu
Jéssica is a PhD candidate in the Anthropology Department at UCSB. Her work explores climate change policies through a historical and ethnographic approach to energy transition infrastructure in Mexico and the US. Jéssica's research is based on deep community partnerships with Indigenous and feminist collectives throughout the Americas as part of her commitment against academic extractivism.
As a CREW member, Jéssica has helped organize international meetings that advance critical perspectives on decarbonization.
Her work has been published in peer-reviewed articles in Ecología Política (2016), Ciudades (2018), Regions and Cohesion (2021), Revista Venezolana de Estudios de la Mujer (2023), as well as dissemination pieces in public media.
Jéssica is also a co-convener of the “Energy Justice in Global Perspective” Research Focus Group at UCSB with faculty and graduate students. Before coming to UCSB, Jéssica completed a Masters in Social Anthropology in Mexico.