{"id":25472,"date":"2026-05-13T15:32:56","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T19:32:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/igs\/?post_type=profile&#038;p=25472"},"modified":"2026-05-13T15:32:56","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T19:32:56","slug":"sheida-hooshmandi","status":"publish","type":"profile","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/igs\/profile\/sheida-hooshmandi\/","title":{"rendered":"Sheida Hooshmandi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sheida Hooshmandi, <span>a 2026 Graduate Summer Fellow at the Boston University Institute for Global Sustainability (IGS), is a PhD student in Earth &amp; Environment in the College of Arts &amp; Sciences. Hooshmandi&#8217;s research explores how climate justice is conceptualized, implemented, and contested within climate adaptation aid and emerging loss and damage frameworks, with a focus on the Global South. Her dissertation examines the extent to which international climate finance such as U.S. adaptation aid addresses structural drivers of vulnerability, including displacement, gender inequality, and unequal access to resources.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Her faculty advisor is Benjamin Sovacool (Professor, Earth &amp; Environment, College of Arts &amp; Sciences and Director, IGS) and her project is titled &#8220;<span>Delivering Climate Justice to Global South: From Climate Adaptation Aid to Loss &amp; Damage Compensation.<\/span>&#8220;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26067,"template":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/igs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/25472"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/igs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/igs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/profile"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/igs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26067"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/igs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/25472\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25474,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/igs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/25472\/revisions\/25474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/igs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}