Zane Frentress

Zane is a geographer from New Orleans whose work focuses on socioecological fluidity, and the complex ways that people and water continuously shape one another in more-than-material ways. They are interested in how queer praxis and mixed methods in research can support ways of living within transitional places in the context of the climate crisis. They specialize in utilizing different mapping techniques to represent the multilayered relationships between people and place. 

Zane is a Climate and Culture Research Fellow with the organization Imagine Waterworks in New Orleans, where they are part of a team collaborating with coastal communities, climate organizers, university researchers, and partners at LSU, NASA, NOAA, NOPP, and others to monitor sea level rise in Louisiana as part of the Marine Biodiversity Observation Network: Sea Level Rise Sentinels project. They are also a 2024 Monroe Fellow with the New Orleans Center for the Gulf South, along with Klie Kliebert, executive director of Imagine Waterworks.