Julie is Director of Research for the Livelihoods Knowledge Exchange Network (LiKEN), a link- tank for policy-relevant research toward post-carbon livelihoods and communities. She is a lecturer in the Environmental Studies Program at the University of California, Santa Barbara, works with the Institute for Tribal Environmental Professionals to support tribes in climate change adaptation planning, and co-facilitates Rising Voices: Climate Resilience through Indigenous and Earth Sciences. As a public anthropologist, Julie has consulted for the UN Development Programme and World Bank on displacement and resettlement, post-disaster needs assessments, and climate change. She previously worked for the US Global Change Research Program and was a fellow with the UN University academies on social vulnerability and climate change. She was an author on the 3 rd US National Climate Assessment and is an author on the current 4 th US National Climate Assessment. She has served as an expert presenter to Congressional committees and staff on climate change, indigenous peoples, displacement, and relocation.

Books:

• Maldonado, J.K. (2019). Seeking Justice in an Energy Sacrifice Zone: Standing on Vanishing Land in Coastal Louisiana. London/New York: Routledge.
• Cernea, M and JK Maldonado, eds. (2019). Challenging the Prevailing Displacement and Resettlement Paradigm: Risks, Impoverishment, Legacies, and Solutions. London/New York Routledge.
• Maldonado, JK. 2018. Seeking Justice in an Energy Sacrifice Zone: Standing on Vanishing
  Land in Coastal Louisiana. London/New York Routledge Press.
• Cernea, M and JK Maldonado. 2018. Challenging the Prevailing Displacement and Resettlement Paradigm: Risks, Impoverishment, Legacies, and Solutions. London/New York Routledge Press.
• Maldonado, JK, R Pandya, and B Colombi, eds. 2014. Climate Change and Indigenous Peoples in the United States: Impacts, Experiences and Actions. Cham, Switzerland, Springer Publishing International. Reprinting of Maldonado, JK, R Pandya, and B Colombi, eds. 2013. Climate Change and Indigenous Peoples in the United States: Impacts, Experiences and Actions. Climatic Change 120(3).

Peer Reviewed Journal Articles/Book Chapters

• Maldonado, J, Peterson, K., Laska, S., Domingue, S., HK Friedrich, A Lesen, S Parfait-Dardar, C Robertson. (2024). Converging Together to Confront Multiple Intersecting and Cascading Disasters: A Network of Mutual Aid Approach, Disaster Prevention and Management, Special Issue: Using Critical Perspectives to Explore Disasters through Shifting Climates. (In review)
• Méndez, M, S Shah, C Golembeski, L Bedsworth, JM Cha, L Goldsmith, TJ Holmes, J Maldonado, BR Middleton Manning, L Estelí Méndez-Barrientos, M Mills-Novoa. (2024). Centering Environmental Justice in United States (U.S.) Climate Assessments, Climatic Change. (In review)
• Jennings, L, K Jones, R Taitingfong, A Martinez, D David-Chavez, R ʻAnolani Alegado, A Tofighi-Niaki, J Maldonado, B Thomas, D Dye, J Weber, KV Spellman, S Ketchum, R Duerr, N Johnson, J Balch, S Russo Carroll. (2024). Earth Data Relations: Indigenous Data Governance across the Data Lifecycle for Open Earth Systems Science, Nature Communications. (forthcoming)
• DJ Martinez, AM Meadow, BR Middleton Manning, J Maldonado. (2024). Climate Justice and Climate Adaptation in California: Indigenous Community Climate Adaptation Leadership and Opportunities for Scientific Collaboration. Weather, Climate and Society 16(3): 399-409.
• Maldonado, J, K Peterson, RE Turner, T Dardar, S Parfait-Dardar, R Philippe, D Dardar, A Jerolleman, J Torres, R Lovingood, M Olson. (2023). Climate actions with a lagniappe: Coastal restoration, flood risk reduction, sacred site protection, and tribal communities’ resilience. Anthropology and Climate Change, 3rd Edition, S Crate and M Nuttall, eds.
• Redsteer, M, I Krupnik, and J Maldonado. (2022). Native American Communities and Climate Change. In Handbook of North American Indians. Vol. 1 – Introduction. Igor Krupnik, ed. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press.
• Thomas, B, D Wildcat, P Blanchard, H Lazrus, J Maldonado. (2022). Justice-Centered and Emergent Knowledge Through Indigenous And Earth Science Collaborations: A New Special Collection For Community Science. Community Science Exchange, American Geophysical Union. Read More
• Lazrus, H, J Maldonado, P Blanchard, MK Souza, B Thomas, D Wildcat. (2022). Culture change to address climate change: Collaborations with Indigenous and Earth sciences for more just, equitable, and sustainable responses to our climate crisis. PLOS Climate, 1 February, https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pclm.0000005
• Krajeski, R, L Jarrett Blanchard, M Ben-Joseph, M Nguyễn, Tu Nguyễn, B Parras, D Rico, MK Souza, D Synan, K Peterson, J Maldonado, A Jerolleman, and N Jessee. (2022). The Underside of Epiphany: Wandering Wonderings. In Justice, Equity, and Emergency Management. A Jerolleman, ed. Emerald Publishing.
• Maldonado, J and BR Middleton. (2022). Climate Resilience Through Equity and Justice: Holistic Leadership by Tribal Nations and Indigenous Communities in the Southwest United States. In Cooling Down: Local Responses to Global Climate Change. T Eriksen, P Mendes, and S Hoffman, eds. Berghahn: New York.
• Maldonado, J, IFC Wang, F Eningowuk, L Iaukea, A Lascurain, H Lazrus, A Naquin, JR Naquin, KM Nogueras-Vidal, K Peterson, I Rivera-Collazo, MK Souza, M Stege, B Thomas. (2021). Addressing the challenges of climate-driven community-led resettlement and site expansion: Knowledge sharing, storytelling, healing, and collaborative coalition building. Journal of Environmental Studies and Sciences, Special Issue. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s13412-021-00695-0
• Iaukea, L, H Lazrus, J Maldonado, P Blanchard, T Dardar, J Doyle, F Eningowuk, D Longknife, M Montano, M Montgomery, J Neosh, KM Nogueras-Vidal, J Rattlingleaf Sr., MK Souza. (2020). Bringing Indigenous and Earth Sciences, Knowledges, and Practices Together to Understand and Respond to COVID-19. Journal of Indigenous Social Development 9(3): 214-223.
• Maldonado, J and M Schuller. (2020). “Imagining a More Just World”: Interview with Julie Maldonado. Annals of Anthropological Practice 44(1): 6-13.
• Faas, AJ, R Barrios, E Marino, and J Maldonado .(2019). Disaster and Climate Change-related Displacements and Resettlements: Cultural and Political Ecologies of Space, Power, and Practice. In The Angry Earth, 2nd edition. A Oliver-Smith and S Hoffman, eds. Routledge Press.
• Maldonado, JK and H Lazrus. (2019). A Story of ‘Rising Voices’ and Intercultural Collaboration. Practicing Anthropology, Special Issue, Storying Climate Change.
• Maldonado, JK and K Peterson. (2018). A Community-based Model for Resettlement: Lessons from Coastal Louisiana. In The Routledge Handbook of Environmental Displacement and Migration. R McLeman and F Gemenne, eds. Routledge Press.
• Bronen, R, JK Maldonado, E Marino, and P Hardison. (2018). Climate Change and Displacement: Challenges and Needs to Address an Imminent Reality. In Challenging the Prevailing Displacement and Resettlement Paradigm: Risks, Impoverishment, Legacies, and Solutions. M Cernea and JK Maldonado, eds. London/New York Routledge Press.
• Cernea, M and JK Maldonado. (2018). Social Science Knowledge and Normative Systems in Involuntary Population Resettlement. In Challenging the Prevailing Displacement and Resettlement Paradigm: Risks, Impoverishment, Legacies, and Solutions. M Cernea and JK Maldonado, eds. London/New York Routledge Press.
• Maldonado, JK. (2017). Corexit to Forget It: The Transformation of Coastal Louisiana into an Energy Sacrifice Zone. In ExtrACTION: Impacts, Engagements and Alternative Futures. K Jalbert, A Willow, S Paladino, and D Casagrande, eds. London/New York: Routledge Press.

Invited Talks

• 2024 Keynote address, U.S. Global Change Research Program (USGCRP) Annual Meeting, May 30.
• 2023 Keynote speaker, Inclusive & Creative Climate Education (ICCE) Workshop, Wilmington, Delaware, Oct. 13.

Organized Conference Panels

• 2024 Coming Together to Honor Heather Lazrus’ Work and Legacy, Society for Applied Anthropology Annual Meeting, March 28.
• 2024 Convergence Science: Indigenous Weather, Water and Climate Knowledge Systems, Practices and Communities Symposium. American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting.
• 2023 Shared Lessons of Intercultural Collaboration and Doing Convergence Science—Rising Voices, Changing Coasts (RVCC): The National Indigenous and Earth Sciences Convergence Hub. American Geophysical Union Annual Meeting.

Conference Papers / Presentations

• 2024 Panelist, 5th US National Climate Assessment, Society for Applied Anthropology Annual Meeting, March 29.
• 2024 Moderator, How Understanding Influences on FEMA Decisions (and the survivor trajectories they produce) Can Help Us Change Them, Society for Applied Anthropology Annual Meeting, March 27.

Invited Webinar Presentations
2024 Presenter, US 5th National Climate Assessment, Human Health Chapter, Feb 14.

• Professional service activities in timeframe of 2023-2024 academic year:
  • Professional Journal Peer Reviews
  • University of Washington’s IDEAAL Disaster Research Training Course Advisory Committee Member
  • Co-founder, Disaster Justice Network
  • Founding member, Culture and Disaster Action Network
  • Academic Council Member, American Indian & Indigenous Collective, UC-Santa Barbara
  • Author, 5th U.S. National Climate Assessment

Journal Articles:

• Maldonado, JK. 2016. Considering Culture in Disaster Practice. Annals of Anthropological Practice. AJ Faas, editor, Special Issue.
• Maldonado, JK, B Taylor, and M Hufford. 2016. The Livelihoods Knowledge Exchange Network: Grow Where You Are. Practicing Anthropology, Special Issue: Activism, Agency and Engagement with Extraction, J Simonelli and S Fiske, co-editors. 38(3).
• Maldonado, JK, TMB Bennett, K Chief, P Cochran, K Cozzetto, B Gough, MH Redsteer, K Lynn, N Maynard, G Voggesser. 2016. Engagement With Indigenous Peoples and Honoring Traditional Knowledge Systems. Climatic Change 135: 111-126.
• Maldonado, JK. 2014. A Multiple Knowledge Approach for Adaptation to Environmental Change: Lessons Learned from Coastal Louisiana’s Tribal Communities. Journal of Political Ecology 21: 61-82.
• Maldonado, JK, C Shearer, R Bronen, K Peterson and H Lazrus. 2013. The Impact of Climate Change on Tribal Communities in the US: Displacement, Relocation, and Human Rights. Climatic Change 120(3): 601-614.
• Maldonado, JK. 2012. A New Path Forward: Researching and Reflecting on Forced Displacement and Resettlement. Report on the International Resettlement Conference: Economics, Social Justice, and Ethics in Development-Caused Involuntary Migration, The Hague, 4-8 October 2010. Journal of Refugee Studies 25(2): 193-220.

Book Chapters:

• Maldonado, JK and K Peterson. 2018. A Community-based Model for Resettlement: Lessons from Coastal Louisiana. In The Routledge Handbook of Environmental Displacement and Migration. R McLeman and F Gemenne, eds. Routledge Press.
• Hiza Redsteer, M, I Krupnik, and JK Maldonado. Forthcoming. Native American Communities and Climate Change. In Handbook of North American Indians. Vol. 1 – Introduction. Igor Krupnik, ed. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press.
• Maldonado, JK. 2017. Corexit to Forget It: The Transformation of Coastal Louisiana into an Energy Sacrifice Zone. In ExtrACTION: Impacts, Engagements and Alternative Futures. K Jalbert, A Willow, S Paladino, and D Casagrande, eds. London/New York: Routledge Press.
• Maldonado, JK. 2016. The Practical and Policy Relevance of Social Network Analysis for Disaster Response, Recovery and Adaptation. In Social Network Analysis in Disaster Response, Recovery, and Adaptation. E Jones and AJ Faas, eds. Pp. 255-268. Elsevier.
• Maldonado, JK, H Lazrus, B Gough, SK Bennett, K Chief, C Dhillon, L Kruger, J Morisette, S Petrovic, K Whyte. 2016. The Story of Rising Voices: Facilitating Collaboration between Indigenous and Western Ways of Knowing. In Responses to Disasters and Climate Change: Understanding Vulnerability and Fostering Resilience. MCompanion and M Chaiken, eds. Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press.
• Peterson, KJ and JK Maldonado. 2016. When Adaptation is Not Enough: Between Now and Then of Community-led Resettlement. In Anthropology and Climate Change, 2nd edition. S Crate and M Nuttall, eds. London/New York: Routledge Press.
• Maldonado, JK, AP Naquin, T Dardar, S Parfait-Dardar and B Bagwell. 2015. Above the Rising Tide: Coastal Louisiana’s Tribal Communities Apply Local Strategies and Knowledge to Adapt to Rapid Environmental Change. In Disasters’ Impact on Livelihood and Cultural Survival: Losses, Opportunities, and Mitigation. M Companion, ed. Pp. 239-253. Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press.

Reports:

• Gonzalez, P, G Garfin, D Breshears, K Brooks, H Brown, E Elias, A Gunasekara, N Huntly, J Maldonado, N Mantua, H Margolis, S McAfee, and BR Middleton (forthcoming, 2018) Chapter 25 “Southwest.” In Fourth National Climate Assessment, Volume II: Impacts, Risks, and Adaptation in the United States. US Global Change Research
  Program.
• Maldonado, J and K Cozzetto. 2018. Gila River Indian Community Climate Adaptation and Resiliency Project: Workshop Series Summary Report.
• Maldonado, J, N Cooley, and K Cozzetto. 2018. Navajo Nation Climate Change Adaptation Planning Workshop: Establishing Natural Resource Priorities. Summary
  Report.
• Cozzetto K, J Maldonado, S Fluharty, J Hostler, C Cosby. 2018. Yurok Tribe Climate Change Adaptation Plan for Water and Aquatic Resources. 1 Institute for Tribal Environmental Professionals (ITEP), Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ. 2 Yurok Tribe Department of Environmental Quality (YTEP), Klamath, CA.
• Powell, D and J Maldonado, eds. 2017. Just Environmental and Climate Pathways: Knowledge Exchange Among Community Organizers, Scholar-Activists, Citizen- Scientists and Artists. Workshop report. Society for Applied Anthropology Annual Meeting. 28 March 2017. Santa Fe, New Mexico.  http://likenknowledge.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/Climate-Pathways-Workshop-Report_Santa-Fe_March-2017.pdf
• Bennett, TM B, NG Maynard, P Cochran, R Gough, K Lynn, J Maldonado, G Voggesser, S Wotkyns, and K Cozzetto. 2014. Ch. 12: Indigenous Peoples, Lands, and Resources. In Climate Change Impacts in the United States: The Third National Climate Assessment. JM Melillo, TC Richmond, and GW Yohe, eds. Pp. 297-317. U.S. Global Change Research Program. http://nca2014.globalchange.gov

• PRC 602 - Social Research for Social Change
• PRC 602 - Social Research for Social Change