Maya Weeks is a poet and feminist political ecologist who works on climate justice. Her areas of transdisciplinary work include oceans, pollution, gender, and Indigenous governance and land stewardship using creative and qualitative methods. Weeks is a lecturer at Rutgers University and visiting scholar at the University of California, Davis Feminist Research Institute. Previously, she served as a California Sea Grant State Fellow and the Director of Outreach and Development at the California Public Domain Allottee Association. A first-generation college graduate, Weeks earned her B.A. in Language Studies (Spanish) from the University of California in Santa Cruz; her M.F.A. in Creative Writing (English) from Mills College; and her Ph.D. in Geography from the University of California in Davis, where she wrote her dissertation on marine plastic pollution from a feminist environmental justice perspective. Her first book, Myth of the Garbage Patch, was published on THOUSANDS Press in 2026. She is a core member of the Scientists’ Coalition for an Effective Plastics Treaty, where she co-leads the Science-Policy Interface Working Group, and serves on the boards of the American Association of Geographers’ Indigenous Peoples Specialty Group and New Cowgirl Camp. She is a settler of Belarusian, Polish, and unknown descent.