Photo by Dr. Rodriguez via Latinas with Masters

​BOOKS

• Hernandez, J. (2025) Growing Papaya Trees: Nurturing Indigenous Roots during Climate Displacement. Penguin Random House - North Atlantic Books
• Hernandez, J. (2022) Fresh Banana Leaves: Healing Indigenous Landscapes Through Indigenous Science. Penguin Random House - North Atlantic Books. 

BOOK CHAPTERS

• Hernandez, J. & Cabrera-Lopez, J. (2025), Generations of Hope for Indigenous Mayan Futures, Engendering Central American Mujeres Testimonios, Arizona University Press.​
• Hernandez, J., Adams M., Vold, V., Jennings, L., et al., (2024) “Honoring our Responsibilities while “Doing Science”: Indigenous Scientists’ Perspectives” In L. A. Jacobs (Ed.). Indigenous Voices: Critical Reflections on Traditional Ecological Knowledge. (OSU Press).
  
• Jacobs, L.A., Yamane, C.Y., Hernandez, J., McAllister, T., Carlson, A. K., et al., (2024). A Critical Declaration of Decolonization and Indigenization for Scientific Research and the Academy. In L. A. Jacobs (Ed.). Indigenous Voices: Critical Reflections on Traditional Ecological Knowledge. (OSU Press).
• Hernandez, J. (2020),  The Role of Environmental Economics in Environmental Justice. The  Medicine Wheel: Environmental Decision-Making Process of Indigenous Peoples. ​Michigan State University Press. 
• Hernandez J. (2020),  Environmental Curriculum Supplement. ​The Whale Child. North Atlantic Books.

​​— DR. JESSICA HERNANDEZ, FRESH BANANA LEAVES

“Like me and many Indigenous peoples in the diaspora, banana trees have also been displaced—taken away from their original lands and forced to adapt to our new environments and form new kinships with our new land.”

PEER REVIEW-PUBLICATIONS

• Hernandez, J., Skiba, J., German, M., Scherr, R., Huynh, T., Mathis, C., & Araya, M. (2022). Exploring Sociopolitical Landscapes in Physics Education. Sustainability and Climate Change, 15(4), 279-288.
  
• Hernandez, J., Meisner, J., Jacobs, L.A., Rabinowitz, P. (2022) Re-Centering Indigenous Knowledge in Climate Change Discourse. PLOS Climate. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pclm.0000032
  
• Hernandez, J., Meisner, J., Bardosh, K., Rabinowitz, P. (2022) Prevent Pandemics and Halt Climate Change? Strengthen Land Rights for Indigenous Peoples. The Lancet Planetary Health. Accepted.
  
• German, M., Hernandez, J., & Scherr R.E. (2022). Connecting the Science of Water to Students' Communities. The Science Teacher.
  
• Hernandez, J., Scherr, R., Gorman, M., & Horowitz, R. (2022) Place-based Education in High School Physics: Situating Energy and Climate Change in Students' Communities. Sustainability & Climate Change. https://doi.org/10.1089/scc.2021.0058 
  
• Hernandez, J., Scherr, R., & Robertson, A. D. (2021). Redefining Energy Justice in Physics Classrooms. Environmental Justice. https://doi.org/10.1089/env.2021.0042
  
• Hernandez, J., and Vogt, K.A. (2020) Indigenizing Restoration: Indigenous Lands before UrbanParks. Human Biology 92.1: 37-44.
  
• Hernandez, J., and Spencer, M.S. (2020). "Weaving Indigenous Science into Ecological Sciences:  Culturally Grounding Our Indigenous Scholarship." Human Biology 92.1: 5-9.
  
• Spencer, M. S., Fentress, T., Touch, A., & Hernandez, J. (2020). Environmental Justice,  Indigenous Knowledge Systems, and Native Hawaiians and Other Pacific Islanders. Human  Biology, 92(1), 45-57.
  
• Hernandez, J. (2019). Indigenizing Environmental Justice: Case studies from the Pacific Northwest. Environmental Justice, 12(4), 175-181.

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