Karen Bailey is an assistant professor in the Department of Environmental Studies at the University of Colorado Boulder. She is interested in human-environment interactions, climate change and sustainable rural livelihoods. She is an environmental social scientist and combines social science research with environmental and ecological data to understand how we can build resilience to climate change and how to support landscapes that meet human needs and sustainability goals. Bailey also emphasizes justice, equity, diversity and inclusion in environmental fields and STEM more broadly, and is committed to research that supports, amplifies and engages the most vulnerable among us. Her current projects focus on climate adaptation in Southern Africa, human health and well-being in East Africa, barriers to entry in natural resource fields, just and equitable climate change research, and human-wildlife conflict and coexistence.