JENNIFER PARK-BURROWS

Web + Content Strategist and Researcher, NYU Peace Research and Education Program

RESEARCH & FOCUS AREAS: Environmental and Conservation Peacebuilding; Political Ecology and Resource Governance; Conservation Governance and Community Impacts; Multispecies Justice and Ecological Recovery; Legal and Moral Foundations of Anthropocentrism.

BACKGROUND
Jennifer Park-Burrows is an interdisciplinary researcher and communications strategist whose work bridges environmental peacebuilding, governance, and human–nonhuman relations. Her research focuses on political ecology, conservation governance, and the legal and moral foundations of anthropocentrism, examining how historical and colonial systems of power shape resource inequality, multispecies justice, green criminology, and ecological recovery. Her body of research includes analyses of Arctic ecological risk and regional governance, with particular attention to environmental security, extraction pressures, and global commons frameworks.

Professionally, Jennifer brings over a decade of international experience across higher education, start-up development, and institutional restructuring in the United States and Asia-Pacific. She has led digital communications and program development initiatives within global research partnerships and supported policy-oriented research in academic and nonprofit settings. With a background in visual art and digital media, she has engaged in arts-based advocacy, including curating the “Liberating Herstories” exhibition to coincide with the 1000th Wednesday Demonstration in Seoul, in collaboration with Korean halmoni survivors of wartime sexual slavery, to center memory, justice, and historical redress. Her research also extends to AI governance and regulatory frameworks, including contributions to the Center for AI and Digital Policy’s Spring 2026 Artificial Intelligence and Democratic Values (AIDV) Index. She has presented related work on artificial intelligence and human trafficking at a UN Commission on the Status of Women (CSW69 / Beijing + 30) side event.

EDUCATION:
MSc, Global Affairs, New York University — Center for Global Affairs
BFA, Visual Art, Rutgers University — Mason Gross School of the Arts

LANGUAGES: English (native), Korean (conversational)