Tendai Chitewere

Professor
Sustainable communities, green consumerism, urban agriculture, social and environmental justice, climate change, STEM education, STEM teacher preparation
Phone: (415) 405-2676
Email: tendai@sfsu.edu
Location: HSS 342

Office Hours: Email for appointment

Courses Taught

Future Environments

Environmental Impact Analysis

Biography

Tendai Chitewere is broadly interested in the intersection of environmentalism, community, and justice. Specifically, she focuses on individual, neighborhood, and government responses to social and environmental degradation by creating sustainable ways to engage with each other and the environment. Building on her research on ecological cohousing communities, and using political ecology to examine the relationship between being green and being just, her current research is focused on urban agriculture in the San Francisco Bay Area and the role of urban gardening and K-16 education. She is also interested in the consumption of green commodities as a means to affect environmental change and creating green lifestyles. She has a strong interest in qualitative and quantitative research design that supports participatory community-based research.