Janna Goebel

Janna Goebel is an assistant professor of sustainability education in the College of Global Futures, School of Sustainability and a Senior Global Futures Scientist in the Julie Ann Wrigley Global Futures Laboratory. She graduated with a PhD in educational policy and evaluation from the Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College at ASU in 2020. As a Global Development Research Scholar, and with the support of First Solar and the United States Agency for International Development, Goebel completed her dissertation research based on her time on family-owned coffee plantations in Southeastern Brazil.

Her work focuses on the ways that education can be conceptualized beyond the human and explores how relationships among humans and the more-than-human world matter in how we approach sustaining life on Earth. Goebel earned a Master of Arts degree in Teaching English as a Second Language and Multicultural Education from Loyola Marymount University (LMU). Goebel was awarded a Women & Philanthropy grant in 2023 for a collaborative project called Solar Canoes Against Deforestation for the team's work in the Ecuadorian Amazon. Clean, affordable canoe travel will connect remote Indigenous communities to emergency medicine, supplies, and schooling without the need to clear the forest to build roads. The team will prototype an electric canoe with a sustainable solar-powered charging station in collaboration with one Indigenous community. Goebel also directed an animated short film called MONARCH, which is a fable that emphasizes the need for humans to live in better harmony with nature. The film premiered in the Shorts by the Sea Vol. 5 film festival in September 2023.