Barbara Louise Endemaño Walker is the Director of Research Development for the Social Sciences, Humanities and Fine Arts in the Office of Research at UCSB.  She is also a Researcher in the Marine Science Institute at UCSB.  Walker’s research on the gendered political ecology of marine resources in Ghana, French Polynesia, and California has been funded by the National Science Foundation, the MacArthur Foundation, and NOAA Sea Grant, among others.  Her current research programs examine alternative food networks among US fishing communities, and the intersections of team science and broadening participation in STEM and higher education.  Her research has been published in the Professional Geographer, Gender Place and Culture, Society and Natural Resources, PLOS ONE, Journal of Geography and Higher Education, and GeoJournal.  She has a Ph.D. and M.A. in Geography from UC Berkeley and a B.A. in Anthropology and African Studies from UCLA.