Dr. Kimambo is a land change scientist interested in teleconnections and rapid land use change. She has paid particular attention to rural East Africa’s tree crop boom of the past decade, spurred by involvement of absentee urban dwellers. She uses geospatial analysis and field-based inquiry to create insights relevant to land use policy and geographic theory.  

Dr. Kimambo is currently an Assistant Professor of Geography and the C.V. Starr Fellow in International Studies at Middlebury College. She earned her PhD and M.Sc. in Geography from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and a B.A in Geology and Environmental History from Brown University. In her spare time she enjoys gardening, call-and-response singing, cooking, and exploring places on foot.