About Me

I am a doctoral student in the Department of Sociology at Vanderbilt University. My research interests include intersectional approaches to women's environmental health, labor, and social change action. I am supervised by Dr. David J. Hess.

I received my Masters of Education from Rhode Island College, and I received both an Honors B.A. in English and B.S. in Energy and Environmental Policy from the University of Delaware.

Before joining Vanderbilt, I was a Secondary ESL English educator in Providence, Rhode Island and a member of Teach For America RI 2020 Corps. I then worked as a STEAM educator at a nonprofit organization.

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Research

The Generative Power of Ecofeminism: Intersectional Analysis and a Justice-Based Lens on Grassroots Activism

• Authors: Alina Caulfield
• In: Southern Sociological Society 88th Annual Meeting: Diasporic Womanism Mini-conference: Womanism at Work and in Community.
• Year: 2025
• Resources: Program

Projects

The DataCenter DataCenter

• Info: In Dr. Jenny Davis's AI & Society graduate seminar, my classmates and I conducted research on xAI to create this public-facing website. The goal of this project was to create an information center & data repository tracking xAI's supercomputer cluster in Memphis, TN. The website is maintained and updated continually by Jenny Davis and her AI Lab.
• Year: 2025
• Resources: https://datacenterdatacenter.com/