Renee Byrd

Dr. Renée Byrd is an Associate Professor of English and Program Lead for CPH’s new major in Critical Agriculture Studies & Agroecology (launching Fall 2026). Her work is situated at the nexus of abolition feminisms, Black ecologies, and healing justice. She asks questions about how violence and the State are reproduced, how we heal and how we meet the challenges of our times. She is the Founder & Director of Earthseed Laboratories, an organization curating ecological healing spaces with formerly incarcerated people and their movement co-conspirators. Byrd is co-author (with Janelle Adsit) of Writing Intersectional Identities: Keywords for Creative Writers. She is a poet, farmer, altar artist, and mom to a precocious 8 year old.