Niwaeli Kimambo

Dr. Niwaeli Kimambo is an Assistant Professor of Geography and the C.V. Starr Fellow in International Studies at Middlebury College. She is an interdisciplinary researcher interested in teleconnections and rapid land use change. She has paid particular attention to rural East Africa’s tree crop boom of the past decade, spurred by involvement of distant urban dwellers. She earned her PhD and M.Sc. in Geography from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and a B.A in Geology and Environmental History from Brown University.