Dr. Jenne Schmidt focuses on critical disability theory, queer politics, and environmental studies. Their current research is centered on interrogating the ways that environmental futures are positioned as incommensurable with crip and queer existence/futurity. They refuse the notion that in order to secure a sustainable ecological future for humans, we must eradicate (via a logic of environmental management that draws on eugenics-adjacent frameworks) corporeal differences including disability and queerness. Dr. Schmidt’s research engages this tension to trouble the foundations of environmentalism and disability, in hopes of locating the moments and places of coalitional possibility where both eco-futures and “desiring disability” (Kafer, 2013) are present.