Elisa (Lizzy) Privitera
Elisa (Lizzy) Privitera is a transdisciplinary researcher and practitioner with expertise in community urban planning, environmental justice, environmental humanities, and political ecology. She is currently a postdoctoral researcher at the Canada Excellence Research Chair Network for Equity in Sustainability Transitions (CERC NEST) at the University of Toronto Scarborough. At the same university, she co-led the Just Transitions in Action project—a community-based research initiative collaborating with local partners to understand and envision equitable transitions. Her PhD dissertation (University of Catania, Italy) explores the role of embodied knowledge and small data in researching and planning industrial risk landscapes. She has published scientific contributions and received several grants, including a Fulbright Scholarship supporting her visiting period at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and the international Courageous Scientists Award for Environmental and Climate Justice (2025). She is a member of the editorial team of plaNext – Next Generation Planning, Critical Sociology and Resistance: A Journal of Radical Environmental Humanities.
Country/Region of interest /research focus: Mediterranean region (especially Sicily); USA (especially California); Canada; Global South countries