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Leonardo Figueroa Helland (PhD (he/him/le’e/el) is Director and Associate Professor of the Environmental Policy and Sustainability Management graduate (MS) program, and faculty with the Environmental Studies undergraduate program, and the PhD in Public and Urban Policy. He is Affiliate Faculty Associate Director at the Tishman Environment and Design Center with a focus on Indigeneity, Decolonization, Climate, Environmental, Global and Food Justice. Some of his recent writing is published in the Oxford Handbook of Climate Action, the Oxford Handbook of Comparative Historical Sociology, the NYU Environmental Law Journal; the Journal of World Systems Research; Perspectives on Global Development and Technology; Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies; and within edited volumes such as Contesting Extinctions: Critical Relationality, Regenerative Futures; Grassroots Resistances, Alternatives and Solutions to the 21st Century Climate and Global Ecological Crises: Voices from the Global South; Inhabiting the Earth: Anarchist Political Ecology for Landscapes of Emancipation; and in Social Movements and World-System Transformation. He also edited a special volume on "Earth Crisis and the Global Environmental Movement" (published in Perspectives on Global Development and Technology). He is currently working on a manuscript on Indigenous Resurgence and Earth Crisis: Decolonizing Pathways to Liberation and Regeneration (forthcoming, Routledge).