Ricardo Rubio is a post-doctoral scholar at Arizona State University’s Water Institute under the guidance of Drs. Maura Allaire and Upmanu Lall. He has primarily conducted environmental justice research on food insecurity, air pollution exposure, extreme heat vulnerability, and water insecurity through an intersectional lens that has uncovered broad within- and between-group inequalities for the six major racial/ethnic groups in the U.S. Ricardo is primarily a quantitative environmental sociologist who utilizes statistics and geospatial analysis in his research and has examined injustices nationally in the U.S. as well as focused on the U.S.-Mexico border. He is an author on ten publications and has mentored undergraduate students on environmental justice research to nurture early research engagement for students. Ricardo seeks to further develop his research career in the examination of water inequities and injustices through community-based participatory research, interdisciplinary collaborative research, and mixed methods approaches.

Ricardo holds a PhD and Master of Science in Sociology from the University of Utah and a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from the University of Texas at El Paso.