Anna Palmer is a Ph.D. student in Sociology at UC Berkeley. Her research examines the convergence of extractivism, (post)colonial development, and the climate crisis through a qualitative and spatial lens. She is a 2025-2026 Mentored Research Award Fellow and a Global Democracy Commons Fellow. She is a co-founder of the Caribbean Coalition at Berkeley and a member of the Anti-Colonial Democracy Lab. Anna holds a BA in sociology from Occidental College and earned her MA in sociology from the University of California, Berkeley.