Dr. Beth Rose Middleton Manning is of Afro-Caribbean and Eastern European descent, born and raised in the rural central Sierra Nevada foothills, Miwuk homelands. She is a Professor of Native American Studies at UC Davis. Beth Rose received her Ph.D. in Environmental Science, Policy, and Management from UC Berkeley in 2008. Beth Rose’s research centers on the environmental justice impacts of natural resource infrastructure and policy, using environmental laws and processes for protection of cultural places and lifeways in the US and Caribbean, assessing and improving environmental health impacts, and collaborating on climate adaptation with Native nations and communities. She has published on environmental justice, environmental/tribal law, history and environmental policy, and two books with University of Arizona Press, Trust in the Land: New Directions in Tribal Conservation (2011), and Upstream: Trust Lands and Power on the Feather River (2018).