I am a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Princeton School of Public & International Affairs (SPIA) at the Center for Policy Research on Energy & the Environment (C-PREE) directed by Dr. Michael Oppenheimer. I conduct collaborative, applied research on climate adaptation and environmental justice policy – interweaving topics in multi-level governance, urban planning, and decision sciences.
I completed my PhD from Princeton SPIA in 2026, with my dissertation titled "Administrative Policy Pathways toward Equitable Climate Adaptation: Governance, Funding, & Policy Preferences". I also worked twice as an Assistant Instructor for Princeton's Environmental Science & Policy survey course, regularly co-taught a Climate & Environmental Justice course with the NJ Prison Teaching Initiative, and interned as a Graduate Fellow at both the NYC Mayor's Office of Climate & Environmental Justice and the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA).
Prior to my PhD, I served for 5 years as the first Sustainability Program Manager at Swarthmore College (in the Philadelphia metropolitan area) – where I helped to launch the Office of Sustainability and to facilitate environmental and climate institutional decision-making, in conjunction with both senior administrators and the wider campus community. During that time, I completed a part-time, executive master's degree in Sustainable Urban Development from the University of Oxford. I also hold a BA in Psychology from Swarthmore, and subsequently worked as a full-time Research Assistant at the Earth Institute at Columbia University.