About Me

Awarded Knight of the Order of the Joola, Senegal, Professor of Geography, GIS, Sustainability @ University of Northern Colorado. 

11 time-Fulbright, Fulbright Hays, Fulbright Specialist awardee, NEH-CAORC Fellow, Royal Geographical Society, Society for Woman Geographers, The Explorers Club. Author: Africa's Joola Shipwreck: Causes and Consequences of a Humanitarian Disaster (Rowman & Littlefield, 2020).   Background in marine resource management, humanitarian disasters, alternative energy, community resilience, African-Latin American geographies. Proud first generation scholar, long distance runner, mom.

karen.barton@unco.edu

twitter: @karensbarton1

Geographies of Hope Podcast

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/k-run