Educator Bio

Laney completed her Ph.D. at the U.C. Berkeley Energy and Resources Group in 2020. She researched sustainable, agroecological food systems and climate change education, and spent several summers working on regenerative farms while researching for her dissertation.  

She has published book chapters on teaching climate change in U.S. K-12 classrooms and on conducting participatory agroecology research. Prior to attending graduate school, she worked as a middle school teaching fellow for 2 years in Boston, MA as part of an AmeriCorps National Teaching Fellowship. 

When she’s not teaching or learning, she enjoys being outside for a variety of physical activities – farming, worm composting, trail running, bird watching, or swimming in the ocean. Originally from the East Coast, she now lives on a farm in Sonoma County, California.