Kessie Alexandre is an Assistant Professor of Geography at the University of Washington, Seattle. Her research organizes around questions of risk and ethics; environmental racism; climate justice and the social implications of climate change adaptation; Black geographies and diaspora; and the politics and ethics of infrastructure. Her book project, Floods and Fountains: Urban Water Governance and Black Spatial Futures, is an ethnography of urban water insecurity told through mundane and spectacular forms of infrastructure breakdown and with a vast repertoire of Black environmental organizing struggles in Newark, NJ. This research has been supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the American Council for Learned Societies, the Wenner-Gren Foundation, and the Environmental Institute and Department of African American Studies at Princeton University. Kessie has published writing in Geoforum and Current Anthropology. She received her PhD in Anthropology with a graduate certificate in African American Studies from Princeton University in 2020.