Mardi Reardon-Smith is an environmental anthropologist and early-career researcher. Her research investigates the social dimensions of environmental management in intercultural and settler-colonial contexts. She is currently employed as a postdoctoral research fellow at the ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society. Mardi is also an Associate Editor for Plant Perspectives and 4S Backchannels.

Her book Making Do: Conservation Ethics and Ecological Care in Australia (2025, Stanford University Press) is available to purchase here for international readers and here for Australian readers. The book explores the co-production of environmental knowledges, practices and care in Cape York Peninsula, far northeast Australia, a region of high and highly contested cultural, environmental, and economic values.