Through this work, Tycko has produced two observational films, Dwelling: A Measure of Life in the Atlanta Forest and Atlanta Forest Garden: Four Days of Work (with Marion Lary), and a photography exhibition, Ways of the Atlanta Forest, currently on view in the Anthropology building at Emory University. Her writing and photographs from the forest have been published in popular and academic presses including n+1, Jewish Currents, Mergoat Magazine, and Trans Studies Quarterly. Her films have screened at a variety of venues around the country and abroad, from university cinemas to community bookstores and DIY spaces.

Tycko’s PhD research is supervised by Dr. Anna Grimshaw. She received her BA in Political Science from the University of Chicago.

His dissertation Disciplinary Negligence: Punitive Processes, Support Networks, and the Experiences of Mexican American High School Students explores the experiences of working-class Mexican American students and how they navigate school discipline and support networks. Drawing on data from a three-year ethnography at a suburban southern California high school that implemented restorative justice school discipline, this project illuminates how practices of restorative social control obscure and promulgate neglect of Mexican American students even within a well-resourced school.

He also earned his BA and MA in sociology at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where he served on the Hispanic Serving Institute committee as an undergraduate representative, and as a McNair’s Scholar Program Graduate Research Mentor. As a community-engaged scholar, Jonathan has continuously mentored marginalized youth through volunteer work with schools and community organizations.

Abby’s dissertation project is a labor history of California’s prison fire camp program from 1970-2020. It asks under what conditions incarcerated workers became the “infantry” of wildfire response in the state and how racial capitalism shaped this program into a climate change response workforce in the late twentieth century. This contemporary history opens up critical inquisitions about labor and power within climate planning and environmental change.

They are a Ph.D. Candidate at the University of California, Santa Cruz in the Environmental Studies department. They received their B.A. from Wesleyan University in 2017 and were a UCSC Global and Community Health Fellow in 2021.