I am a 5th-year PhD candidate at the Princeton School of Public & International Affairs in the Science, Technology, & Environmental Policy program. I conduct collaborative, applied research on climate adaptation and environmental justice policy – interweaving topics in multi-level governance, urban planning, and decision sciences. I also co-teach a Climate & Environmental Justice course with the NJ Prison Teaching Initiative, and previously worked as a Graduate Fellow at both the NYC Mayor's Office of Climate & Environmental Justice and the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA).
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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.