Hadil Ayoub is a PhD candidate in the Department of Environmental Sciences and Policy in Central European University, Vienna. She is doing her research on territorial stigmatisation and environmental justice in a social housing neighbourhood in Lisbon called Chelas. Hadil received her Bachelor of Arts in Environmental Science from Barnard College of Columbia University in New York City, doing research on hydraulic fracturing (hydro-fracking), and her Master of Science in Environmental Sciences and Policy from Central European University in Budapest, doing research on environmental justice and urban green spaces in New York’s Mornginside Heights. Aside from the bore of academia, Hadil has worked in the field of media and communications, in particular communicating and disseminating European Union sustainability projects under the Horizon 2020 and Horizon Europe schemes, as well as a research assistant for a monitoring and evaluations company that conducts and evaluates development projects in Palestine. She also occasionally works as an Arabic-English translator. Outside of all of that, Hadil likes to cook and bake, search for the best cake places around, and dance salsa.