My name is Araby Smyth and my pronouns are she/her/ella. I am a geographer living on the land of the Anishinabek Nation, the Haudenosaunee Confederacy, the Huron-Wendat, and the Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation.
I am currently a Post-Doctoral Visitor at the City Institute and Faculty of Environmental & Urban Change at York University.
I was born and raised in Cincinnati, Ohio, USA. In 2002, after a year at Antioch College and a summer class at the University of Cincinnati, I moved to Brooklyn, New York to focus on anti-war and immigrants’ rights activism. I juggled activism with various part-time jobs and night classes at Hunter College of the City University of New York. I completed my bachelor’s degree in 2006, the first person on my mother’s side of the family to do so.
Between my bachelor’s and master’s degrees I continued with activism while working in the NYC restaurant industry. It was there that I really began learning Spanish and became intellectually curious about the concepts and theories I would eventually study in graduate school.
I received my master’s degree in Geography (2015) from Hunter College of the City University of New York and was awarded my Ph.D. in Geography from the University of Kentucky in 2021.
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