Sarah Molinari is a cultural anthropologist and public scholar who works at the intersection of ethnography, critical environmental studies, feminist geography, and digital humanities. She holds a PhD in Anthropology from the CUNY Graduate Center (2021) and serves as an Assistant Teaching Professor in the Department of Integrative and Global Studies at Worcester Polytechnic Institute and a Faculty Researcher with the Caribbean Collaborative Action Network. Her research broadly examines the politics and lived experiences of debt, mutual aid, and the climate crisis in Puerto Rico and the greater Caribbean region. Prior to joining the faculty at WPI, Sarah was a postdoctoral researcher with NOAA’s Caribbean Collaborative Action Network (2023-2025) and FIU’s Extreme Events Institute (2021-2023), where she conducted community-engaged research on climate resilience, adaptation, and justice in the US Caribbean and Miami, Florida. From 2023-2024, Sarah was also a Fellow with Princeton University’s Post-Disaster Futures Study Group, where she advanced her ongoing research documenting grassroots efforts to repurpose abandoned spaces in Puerto Rico. Sarah has taught interdisciplinary courses on research methodologies at the University of Puerto Rico, Cayey and Caribbean Studies at Hunter College (CUNY). She is a Co-Founder of the Puerto Rico Syllabus, a digital open educational resource for teaching and learning about Puerto Rico’s debt crisis. Sarah’s publications appear in both scholarly and popular outlets such as Disasters, Urban Geography, Climate and Development, CENTRO Journal, Aftershocks of Disaster (Haymarket Books), Truthout, and Anthropology News.