PhD Candidate, Department of Geography, UCLA
Adina Matisoff is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Geography at UCLA, specializing in political geography. She has a decade of experience working for international advocacy organizations in the fields of environmental and social justice and peacebuilding. Her research emerged from this work and explores questions about the environmental and social practices of Chinese financial institutions and transnational companies as they rise to global prominence. Currently, she focuses on the Chinese-led Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) as a lens through which to understand the impact of new global powers on international financial institutions and the advocacy organizations that contest them.
Adina received her MESc from the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies and a BA from New York University’s Gallatin School of Individualized Study. Her work has been recognized by the National Science Foundation, and she was the recipient of a U.S. Fulbright scholarship in China and the U.S. Foreign Language & Area Studies Fellowship. Her research has taken her across Africa, Asia, Europe and the Americas.