Tracey Osborne is Associate Professor in the Management of Complex Systems Department at the University of California, Merced. Her research focuses on the social and political economic dimensions of climate change mitigation in tropical forests and the role of Indigenous Peoples. She also studies climate finance, environmental governance, and climate justice. She has extensive field experience in Mexico and the Amazon (Peru, Ecuador and Guyana). She also directs the Climate Alliance Mapping Project, a collaborative effort between academics, environmental non-governmental organizations, and Indigenous organizations working for a socially-just response to climate change through research, maps and digital stories.