People at GCK Project

Clea Senneville

Graduate Research Assistant

As a first-year doctoral student and research assistant in the School of Justice and Social Inquiry at ASU, Clea is studying a range of issues including national and local scale immigration legislation and action; cities and other contexts of innovation and innovativeness; and international intellectual property rights for biological material.  Prior to this, as a research assistant at the Global Institute of Sustainability, Clea explored issues of sustainable water resource allocation for food production at the confluence of urbanization and increasing water scarcity.  She worked on the development site-specific case studies toward "generalizable" comprehensive typologies and frameworks to understand varying future trajectories in this area. Clea completed her Bachelor of Arts in International Relations and Latin American Studies at the University of British Columbia. There, she worked on topics in global environmental governance - local and global scale decision-making venues, particularly those intended to govern some aspect of natural landscapes, and their (legal and cultural) relationship with major market institutions or agreements.  Additionally, Clea had the opportunity to pursue these interests during two extended stints in Oaxaca and Guanajuato, Mexico, where she was exposed to evidence of the direct implications of decision-making procedures and policies on small-scale agricultural communities, on questions of ownership of traditional knowledge, and ecosystem service functionality and maintenance in poverty.