Africana Studies / Rites and Reason Theatre

Research Interests - Black Feminist Ecologies, Critical Disaster Studies, Caribbean Studies

Lauren Sierra Prince received her B.A. with the highest distinction in Political & Social Thought and Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies from the University of Virginia. As a PhD Student with roots in the Virgin Islands and the Black South, her research interests lie at the intersection of Black feminist geographies, Black ecologies, critical disaster studies, and (de)colonial studies. In her current work, she studies the production of Black vulnerability to environmental disasters in the African diaspora and explores Black feminist community responses to such disasters, with particular attention to the U.S. Virgin Islands. In addition to being a student, Lauren is the graduate coordinator for the Center for Environmental Humanities at Brown. She is also the director of the After the Storm Collective, which aims to create digital maps and archives that record the survival of Black people across the Greater Caribbean. In her free time, Lauren enjoys music, reading, bartending, and sitting with her grandpa on his porch in St. John, USVI.