Associate Dean in the School for the Environment and an Associate Professor in the Department of Urban Planning and Community Development. She is an expert in planning theory and qualitative research methodologies. Professor Sweet engages in collaborative community economic development focusing on the links between economies, violence, and identities. Using feminist, anti-racist and decolonial frameworks, her work in U.S. Native, Black, Latino and Latin American communities has led to long-term collaborations and inclusive projects that both push the boundaries of planning theory and methods while at the same time provides practical planning interventions. She has pioneered the use of body map storytelling and community mapping as innovative ways to co-create data and strategies with communities on a wide range of issues and urban problems. Theoretically, these methods create awareness that enables planners and communities to re-envision their relationships with environments and see their visceral, historical, and spiritual bonds. These new understandings promote new practices. Her most recent project is focused on Afro-Mexican and Native erasure in Mexico and the ways that Anti Black/Native narratives impact Mexicans/Chicanos in U.S. cities. She is also working in the Costa Chica in Mexico to document Afro-Mexican traditional ecological knowledge.