Dr. Max Liboiron

Dr. Max Liboiron is currently a Professor in Geography at Memorial University in Canada, where they run the CLEAR lab. Their dissertation research focused on the emerging state of plastic pollution as a field, and their work now focuses on creating tools and infrastructures for community-based plastic pollution research now that it is an established field. In this video, Max revisits the time they almost left graduate school during the first week, and what it took for them to ultimately learn how to navigate the culture and system at their institution so they could receive their PhD and do the work they wanted to do in the world.