Originally from South Florida, Christian Keeve has lived a smattering of lives before entering the PhD program at UK; at different times a high school horticulture teacher, environmental educator, public service member, farmer, a few kinds of fellow. They completed their BA in Environmental Sciences & African-American Studies at Northwestern and their MS in Geography at the University of Wisconsin. Their research interests include Black Geographies, Queer Geographies, Political Ecology, Vegetal Geographies, Historical Ecology, etc etc, but really they just like reading comics, tending to plants, and growing food.