Laura CastroDiaz

Laura CastroDiaz is an Assistant Professor at the School for the Environment, UMass Boston, where she conducts community-based research addressing environmental injustices in food, water, and energy systems. Her work spans multiple scales from local to global, focusing on social-ecological systems and energy/water justice.

• Key Expertise: Environmental Justice, Sustainability, Social-Ecological Systems
• Methodologies: Mixed-methods, Community-Based Participatory Research

Her publication record demonstrates sustained engagement with hydropower impacts in the Amazon (2016-2024) and innovative work on energy justice frameworks. Recent 2024 articles in Progress in Energy and Energy Research & Social Science highlight her leadership in participatory energy justice research and multidimensional inequality analysis. Collaborative work spans institutions in the U.S., Brazil, and Colombia.