Alyssa Mendez is a PhD student in Anthropology at the University of Chicago. She holds an International Master’s in South European Studies from the University of Glasgow and the University of Athens and a Bachelor’s in Anthropology with a concentration in Modern Greek Studies from Columbia University. Her research interests include urbanization, ‘renewable’ energy transitions, and socioecological movements. Centered on large-scale wind energy infrastructure in a biodiverse peasant landscape in Greece, her dissertation research interrogates the social, political, and ontological implications of popular technoscientific ‘fixes’ to climate change.