Anika Rice

Anika Rice (she/her) is pursuing a PhD in Geography, studying migration, land access, gender and agroecology in Central America. Her dissertation scrutinizes the intersectional roles of gender and land access in family-level transnational migration decisions and outcomes in the western highlands of Guatemala. In this context, how families leverage landholdings for migration is central to livelihoods and agrarian change. She works collaboratively with groups of predominately Maya K’iche’ women who are seeking to understand both the gendered vulnerabilities produced by structural marginalization and inhumane migration policy, as well as the possibilities for collective resistance. The SKJ Fellowship supports her travel to the Guatemalan highlands for preliminary fieldwork. Anika has previously worked with agroecological farmer groups throughout rural Guatemala on economic solidarity and alternative markets, as well as with Guatemalan and Nicaraguan coffee cooperatives as a National Geographic Early Career Grantee. She is also passionate about farm curriculum writing, experiential outdoor education, participatory-action research and feminist pedagogy.