Ryan Emanuel is a Lumbee scientist, community-engaged scholar, and author from North Carolina. A tenured faculty member at Duke University, his research group studies how humans and our non-human relatives affect (and are affected by) water and environmental processes. Ryan promotes environmental justice and Indigenous rights through research, teaching, and public engagement. He is the author of On the Swamp: Fighting for Indigenous Environmental Justice, a book published in 2024 by UNC Press. (more)