Blair Nelsen
Professional School Student
Blair A. R. Nelsen is a Master of Arts in Religion candidate at Yale Divinity School, concentrating in Latinx/Latin American Christianity. She was born in Houston and raised in Venezuela. She earned her BA with Honors in Environmental Studies from Brown University in 2006, writing her thesis on community-based conservation practices among traditional ribeirinho communities in the Brazilian Amazon. She has lived in Brazil for the last eleven years, and is fluent in Portuguese and Spanish. Her research interests center around new religious movements and ecology in Latin America, particularly Brazil.