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Olivia David

Olivia David
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Entering Year
2022
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Olivia is a Doctoral Candidate at University of Michigan's School for Environment and Sustainability (SEAS), from which she also obtained her MS degree. She is also affiliated with multiple interdisciplinary programs across UM, including the Science, Technology, and Public Policy (STPP) Program (https://stpp.fordschool.umich.edu/) based in the Ford School of Public Policy; the Science, Technology, and Society Program (https://lsa.umich.edu/sts); and the African Studies Center (https://ii.umich.edu/asc).

In her research, Olivia is interested in how policy processes and outcomes can advance social and environmental justice and the role of activism in policy-making, with a focus on drinking water policy and politics. Her work draws on and integrates scholarship from multiple fields including environmental justice, policy studies, science and technology studies, and political ecology. Her dissertation research investigates the politics of drinking water policy and infrastructures, using cases of severe water access inequality in Detroit, Michigan and Cape Town, South Africa. In her free time, Olivia is usually swimming, cooking/eating, or walking her dog, Alice.

Education

MS, Environmental Policy & Justice, University of Michigan School for Environment & Sustainability, 2022 

Graduate Certificate, Science, Technology, & Public Policy, University of Michigan Ford School of Public Policy, 2022

BS, Environmental Studies, University of Southern California, 2017

Advisor
Tony G. Reames
Advisor Specialization(s)
Environmental Justice
Research

David, O., & Hughes, S. (2024). Ten Years Later: How Water Crises in Flint and Detroit Transformed the Politics of U.S. Water Policy. The Forum, 22(1), 161–175. https://doi.org/10.1515/for-2024-2013

David, O., & Hughes, S. (2023). Whose water crisis? How policy responses to acute environmental change widen inequality. Policy Studies Journal, 52(2), 425–450. https://doi.org/10.1111/psj.12524

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