Dr. Cydney K. Seigerman (she/they) is a transdisciplinary water scholar guided by the premise that equity and justice are fundamental to creating more sustainable futures. During their PhD studies, they served as an NSF Graduate Research Fellow and worked as a research fellow at the Research Institute for Meteorology and Water Resources - Ceará State (FUNCEME) in Ceará, Brazil. Seigerman's research incorporates methods from the critical social sciences, natural sciences, and theatre/performance studies to explore the relationships between people, technology, and the environment. Much of Seigerman’s work is focused on water realities in Northeast Brazil and the US. Their ongoing research in the semi-arid region of Ceará, Northeast Brazil explores how socionatural (i.e., interrelated sociopolitical, environmental, and technological) processes shape and are shaped by the lived experience of water insecurity across the rural hinterlands. Return to Who We Are