Brianna Castro

Brianna B. Castro is an Assistant Professor of Urban Sustainability at Yale School of the Environment. Her research examines how communities navigate climate change through everyday adaptation strategies, with particular focus on climate migration, land tenure, and environmental justice. Castro's work bridges environmental sociology, urban planning, and policy through  field research across the Global North and South, including extensive studies in Colombia, Nigeria, and the United States. She has published in leading journals including Social Problems, Ecology and Society, and Global Environmental Change. Castro received her Ph.D. in Sociology from Harvard University and was previously an Assistant Professor at Vanderbilt University, where she founded the CLIMA (Climate Migration and Adaptation) Research Lab.