Hillary Angelo is Associate Professor of Sociology and founding Director of the Center for Critical Urban and Environmental Studies at the University of California Santa Cruz. Her work combines historical sociology, critical social theory, and urban political economy and ecology to analyze contemporary urban and environmental culture and politics. She has published widely in leading sociology, geography, and urban studies journals, and her first book, How Green Became Good: Urbanized Nature and the Making of Cities and Citizens, was published in 2021 by the University of Chicago Press. She is currently writing a book on the American West’s 610 million acres of public lands, which are key sites of climate transitions and flashpoints of 21st-century political conflict.