Mardi Reardon-Smith is an environmental anthropologist and early-career researcher interested in human-environment relations, political ecology, intercultural relationships in settler-colonial contexts, and visual anthropology. She is currently employed as a postdoctoral research fellow at the ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society.

Her book Making Do: Conservation Ethics and Ecological Care in Australia (Stanford University Press) is due for release 21st October 2025 and is available to purchase here. 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.