About me

I am an Assistant Professor of Environmental Policy and Governance at Yale School of the Environment. I graduated in 2021 with a PhD in Political Science and International Affairs from the Political Science department and the School of Global Policy and Strategy. My work focuses on environmental policymaking–especially how political institutions mediate the relationship between the environmental preferences of constituents and the incentives and actions of policymakers. I also study the distributional consequences over space and time of decisions about natural resources, and how those play in to policymaking. I develop methods for using new sources of digital data, including text and satellite images, to measure individual and group preferences, and to observe outcomes on the ground. I use those to help understand preferences for different policies, and what the effects of those policies are. My work has appeard in Nature Sustainability Environmental Research Letters, Natural Resources Forum, Water Resources Development, and the American Journal of Political Science.

I graduated from Whitman College with a B.A. in Politics in 2009, after which I worked as a researcher for the International Water Management Institute in Colombo, Sri Lanka, as a ski instructor at Crested Butte, CO, and as an English Teacher at 四川大学，锦江学院 (Sichuan University, Jinjiang College) in Sichuan, China. I surf, ski, climb, kayak, and play tennis while thinking of new research ideas.