She completed an undergraduate degree at the University of Cambridge in 2006, and later studied for her MSc in Society and Space and a PhD in Human Geography at the University of Bristol. She completed her PhD in 2012
As part of her academic practice she was committed to practices for just and equitable social change as well as the dissemination of useful knowledge through popular education networks. To this end she works closely with community partners and social movements in her research. She is also involved in several refugee and asylum-seeking organisations in Bristol and co-founded the Bristol Hospitality Network, for which she remains a Trustee. She is involved in UK food networks such as the Landworker Alliance, and work collaboratively on environmental and food justice issues with community groups in the UK and Latin America.
She is also a member of the Authority Research Network (ARN), an interdisciplinary group of early career scholars who try to understand how authority relations are produced and transformed. Through theoretical work and collabrorative interventions they seek to practically engage with questions of positive power, political subjectivity, experience and authority. The ARN was nitiatied with support from the Institute for Advanced Studies, University of Bristol in 2008, and has worked on three successful projects as part of the AHRC Connected Communities Programme.