Olivia David is a Doctoral Candidate at University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, School for Environment and Sustainability (SEAS), from where she also obtained her MSc degree. She is a member of the Informal Sustainability Lab and is also affiliated with interdisciplinary programs across U-M including the Science, Technology, and Public Policy (STPP) Program based in the Ford School of Public Policy; the Science, Technology, and Society Program; and the African Studies Center. In her research, Olivia is interested in how policy processes and outcomes can advance social and environmental justice and the role of activism in policy-making, with a focus on drinking water policy and politics. Her work draws on and integrates scholarship from multiple fields including environmental justice, policy studies, science and technology studies, and political ecology. Her dissertation research uses cases of water service disconnections and accessibility inequality in Detroit, Michigan and Cape Town, South Africa to investigate the politics of drinking water policy and infrastructures, and the entrenchment of water injustice.