Mufti Nadimul Quamar Ahmed

Mufti Nadimul Quamar Ahmed is a Ph.D. candidate in environmental sociology at Utah State University. His academic and community engagements are rooted in sustainability, environmental justice, and the lived experiences of marginalized populations, including immigrant communities in the United States and environmentally vulnerable populations in Bangladesh. Mufti’s PhD research examines how climate change and environmental issues shape migration decision-making for both Utahns and Utah immigrants. Prior to this work, he investigated the impacts of climate change on vulnerable communities in Bangladesh and the strategies they employ to adapt to environmental change. 

Ruth Akorli

I am a PhD candidate in the Department of Marine Affairs at the University of Rhode Island. My research looks at ocean governance, climate adaptation and environmental justice in coastal Ghana. More specifically, I am interested in how sea defence projects and relocation policies affect displacement, livelihoods and access to resources in Keta, especially for women fish processors and traders. I am also very interested in decolonizing ocean governance and thinking about how sustainability policies can better reflect the knowledge, experiences and priorities of coastal communities.

Ana Lucia Araujo Raurau

I am a human-environment geographer and anthropologist specializing in the political ecology of Indigenous and rural livelihoods in Amazonia. My research investigates how the governance of Indigenous territories shapes the conditions under which communities can sustain their livelihoods and remain stewards of their forests. My doctoral project reframes secondary forest degradation in Indigenous territories–not as a land management failure but as the spatial imprint of an extractive political economy that constrains traditional regenerative agriculture. I am currently a PhD student in the Graduate School of Geography at Clark University. I also serve as a board member of the Conference of Latin American Geography (CLAG).

Samuel Ayivi

I am a PhD student in the Department of Geography, Sustainability, Community and Urban Studies at the University of Connecticut. My research examines offshore wind energy development in the United States, with particular attention to the New England region, and is grounded in socio-technical transitions and energy justice frameworks. My recent empirical work centers on Barnstable and Falmouth, Massachusetts, where I collected original survey data and conducted stakeholder interviews examining community responses to offshore wind projects. This work explores questions of procedural justice, institutional trust, and impacts on vulnerable populations, including Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC). I also research renewable energy workforce development, focusing on how training institutions prepare trainees for careers in the sector. This work is also framed through socio-technical transitions and energy justice theories. I complement my work with geospatial (GIS) analyses to address their spatial dimensions, including proximity of affected communities to offshore wind infrastructure and the spatial distribution of workforce training institutions relative to underserved populations, allowing me to situate community responses, stakeholder perspectives, and workforce access patterns within a broader spatial context, strengthening my analysis of distributional and procedural justice concerns that shape my work.

Aline Bravo

Aline Bravo is a PhD student in Anthropology at the University of Southern California. She holds a BA in Anthropology and an MA in International Studies from the University of Chile. Her research explores the relationships between human and plant (im)mobilities and changing water availability—from scarcity to flooding—in the rural desert regions of northern Chile. Combining ethnographic research, archival analysis, and cartographic methods, she investigates how movements across species are historically produced, governed, and contested. Her work contributes to interdisciplinary debates in environmental mobility studies, and multi-actor governance of arid and extractive landscapes.

Wan Chantavilasvong

Wan Chantavilasvong is a city planner, a marine ecologist, and a photography artist, who is currently pursuing her PhD in Geography at Rutgers University. Her PhD research focuses on the relationships between coastal urbanity and marine ecology through waste and wasting relations across Southeast Asia, including Indonesia, the Philippines, and Thailand. In addition to her PhD, she is also a Founding Director at NACSA (Nature and City Scape Analytics), an independent research institute based in Thailand. Through NACSA, her work spans from integrating air quality monitoring systems into Bangkok’s municipal governance to understanding coral reefs’ connectivity in the Gulf of Thailand and strategizing marine and coastal Nature-based Solutions throughout Southeast Asia. She holds a BArch in Architecture from Chulalongkorn University (‘12) and a Master’s in City Planning from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) (‘18). She has also worked in several countries, including Thailand, Peru, India, Egypt, Sri Lanka, Nepal, South Korea, and the US.

Anna Demina

Anna Demina is a PhD Candidate in Urban Planning in the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation at Columbia University. Her research explores the socio-political dimensions of the development and adoption of distributed energy infrastructure and broader issues of energy policy, climate change, and community resilience in North America. In her dissertation, Anna examines the reciprocal relationship between smart microgrids as a niche technology and the socio-political world, asking why and how existing socio‑political, economic, and institutional arrangements shape the creation, governance and spatial configuration of microgrids, how they are negotiated and how different actors construct and contest imaginaries of the grid’s future. Prior to joining GSAPP, she has been working in the public policy field in the U.S. and Russia. She received her MSc in Urban Planning and Policy from Northeastern University with a concentration in Sustainability and Resilience.

Fnu Fithriyyah

Dr. Fithriyyah is an Indonesian medical doctor and environmental advocate with climate and health expertise. She is a Fulbright Scholar and currently pursuing a Master of Public Health in Environmental Health Sciences at Rutgers University, USA. Fithriyyah is honored as a UN Women 30 for 2030, a member of the Regional Youth Parliament for Climate Action (RYPCA) by UNDP Asia-Pacific, part of the Youth Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) Task Force of ReAct Asia-Pacific, and a fellow of the Women of the South Speak Out (WOSSO). She was a youth advisor for the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) Centre for Climate Change and Planetary Health from 2023 to 2024. Now, she serves as a focal point for the Environmental Health Working Group of Children and Youth Major Group to UNEP (CYMG UNEP) and is also the ASEAN Youth Forum’s (AYF) Regional Executive Board. She has represented AYF to the ASEAN Environmental Rights Working Group, serving as the youth group representative, in the creation of the ASEAN Declaration on the Rights to a Safe, Clean, Healthy, and Sustainable Development, which was adopted in 2025. 

Marion Harper

Marion C. Harper is a fifth year PhD student at Stony Brook University with a specialization in environmental sociology. Her research focuses on how global governance and policies impact environmental outcomes cross-nationally. Of particular interest is whether economic incentives are effective in reducing air pollution emissions and forest loss. Her dissertation, titled Policy-Based Instruments and Air Pollution Emissions: A Cross-National Analysis of OECD Nations, examines how environmental governance shapes sustainable outcomes. Using an environmental state framing, I analyze cross-national data from OECD countries to assess how different policy instruments (i.e., market-based versus non-market) affect air pollution levels. Her recent work can be found published in Socius, Sociology of Development, Comparative Sociology, and Environmental Sociology with her advisor, John M. Shandra, and their team of collaborators.

Ahmad Hidayat

Ahmad Hidayat is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Geography and Environment at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, where his research examines forest carbon market governance in Indonesia, focusing on how green market territorialization shapes the justice outcomes of global climate change mitigation. Prior to joining UNC Chapel Hill in 2025, he worked as a senior researcher, policy analyst, and consultant with organizations including the Pulitzer Center, Carbon Policy Lab, Universitas Indonesia, and USAID Jakarta. His research interests encompass climate governance, carbon markets, energy transition, migration, international development, and South-South cooperation, and has been published in outlets such as the International Journal of Development Issues, Asia Europe Journal, and IRs UI Commentaries. Born into a Minangkabau family, part of the world's largest matrilineal society, Ahmad maintains strong connections with his hometown in West Sumatra through youth sustainability forums established with colleagues he met during his Bachelor's studies in International Relations at Universitas Indonesia and his Master's studies in Global Affairs and Policy at Yonsei University, South Korea.

Kirby Jacobs

Kirby Jacobs is a public anthropologist and applied researcher based in Washington, DC. She specializes in community-engaged conservation research, participatory action research, and social-ecological systems. Kirby holds an MA in Public Anthropology with an Environmental Concentration from American University and a BS in Anthropology from Virginia Commonwealth University. Their MA thesis applied community-based participatory research with community leaders in Richmond, VA, examining how place attachment and informal civic networks function as governance resources in a city navigating environmental stressors and development pressure. Kirby has led mixed-methods research programs for international NGOs and corporate partners across 15+ countries, and worked directly alongside Indigenous and traditional knowledge holders in Guatemala, Arizona, and New Zealand. She presented at the 2022 Society for Applied Anthropology Annual Meeting on collaborative research and community partnership, and co-produced Sustainability at a Crossroads, a public-facing report released at COP30 surveying 844 sustainability experts across 72 countries. Kirby is attending the Summer School to build the governance frameworks and grant and publication skills behind their move into creative placemaking and sustainable community planning, and to connect with an interdisciplinary network working across environmental anthropology, sustainability, conservation governance, and community engagement. Research experience and interests in social dimensions of conservation, social-environmental resilience, belonging and placemaking, critical geography, public space and green space access, political ecology, community-based climate adaptation, urban studies/planning, and participatory methods.

Annie Lin

Annie Hui-Ping Lin is a rising third-year PhD student in the Department of Political Science at University of California, San Diego. Her research examines international cooperation, institutions, and political economy in ocean and environmental governance. She is particularly interested in how states and other governance actors sustain cooperation, navigate overlapping institutions, and manage tensions between environmental protection and economic interests. 

Her published research examines institutional interplay in the governance of marine biodiversity beyond national jurisdiction. It shows how coordination practices developed within the seemingly fragmented ocean governance system created foundations for the coordinating role envisioned under the BBNJ Agreement. Her current project investigates why states take divergent positions on deep-sea mining in areas beyond national jurisdiction, focusing on how countries’ positions within critical-mineral supply chains shape their preferences toward new sources of mineral supply. More broadly, Annie is developing a research agenda to rethink International Relations with the oceans, to understand under what conditions international cooperation can be sustained in ocean spaces characterized by liquid authority, diverse interests, and limited enforcement. Originally from Taiwan, she received her B.A. in East Asian Studies from National Taiwan Normal University and her M.A. in Political Science from National Taiwan University.

Luci Lu

I am a research scientist at the Jornada Experimental Range at New Mexico State University. My research focuses on how rangelands are governed and managed, especially how land tenure institutions affect management decisions on the ground. I am also looking at how emerging forces such as renewable energy development and precision agricultural technologies interact with these institutions. Working from a land system science perspective, I combine social data with remote sensing and spatial modeling to understand the feedbacks between dryland landscapes and the people who manage them. My work began in the pastoral grasslands of China, where my PhD research in Geography at McGill University examined the rental markets emerging from grassland privatization and their consequences for tenure security and land use, and now extends to the rangelands of the American Southwest.

Maryam (Niki) Tavallali 

I am an MPH student in Environmental Health Sciences at Rutgers University with a B.S. in Water Engineering. My experience includes water quality, environmental exposure assessment, climate resilience, laboratory analysis, and data analysis using R and Excel. As a research assistant at Rutgers EOHSI, I support environmental health studies through data management, literature reviews, analytical workflows, and community-focused research. I am especially interested in using scientific evidence, sustainable governance, and community engagement to advance climate resilience, water security, environmental justice, and public health.

Claudia Mendoza Chávez

Claudia Mendoza Chávez is a 5th year Sociocultural Anthropology PhD student at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She is studying groundwater policy in California. Born and raised in Michoacán, México, Claudia has spent the past fifteen years living, studying, and working in California’s Central Valley. After graduating from CSU Stanislaus with a BA in Anthropology, she moved to Santa Barbara to pursue a Masters/PhD track in Anthropology at UCSB. Her current research focuses on groundwater policy in California, with a focus on community engagement in policy (SGMA), activist methodologies, and examining power dynamics in decision-making. She is also currently working with Environmental Defense Fund (EDF), leading the Water Leadership Institute (WLI) in California. WLI brings place-based water education to communities facing a variety of water issues. The California WLI work is focused in the Salinas and San Joaquin Valleys. With a variety of partnerships with local community organizations, WLI is able to provide a space for communities to share their concerns about water and find feasible steps to get involved in the process. Claudia’s focus on activist and applied anthropology shows through her work with EDF and the Water Leadership Institute. 

Fridah Dermmillah Obare

1. Dermmillah Obare is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Center for Governance and Sustainability at the University of Massachusetts Boston. She is a scholar-practitioner with over a decade of experience working at the intersection of research, policy, and practice to make environmental governance in Africa more inclusive, effective, and responsive to local communities. She holds a PhD in Global Governance and Human Security from UMass Boston, as well as an MA in Conflict Resolution, an MS in Biology of Conservation, and a BS in Wildlife Management. Her research and practice focus on the design and performance of government wildlife institutions, advocating for inclusive governance models that integrate the livelihood needs of Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities. Drawing on historical and legal analysis, community perspectives, and spatial analysis, her work diagnoses persistent governance challenges and emphasizes the need for institutional restructuring responsive to local context. She regularly presents at the International Studies Association conferences and has published in Nature and the International Wildlife Law and Policy journal, and has written a commentary piece for The Conversation. She served as Kenya's designated person on a CITES Standing Committee Working Group on Communities and Livelihood and produced policy documents for species management in Kenya.

Angela Ocampo

Angela Ocampo received her PhD in Political and Social Sciences from the Centre for Interdisciplinary Research Democracy, Institutions and Subjectivities (CriDIS) at the University of Louvain, Belgium (UCLouvain, 2023). She holds a Master’s degree in Political science and International Relations from the same University. Her research combines political ecology with socio-legal studies to approach rights-based activism, environmental governance and policy, particularly examining competing ideas and epistemologies of place and environment in legal processes and governance arenas. Currently, her research focuses on sustainability transitions through the intersection of science, policy and participatory processes. She’s a lecturer in Governance and Territorial Development at the Universidad del Rosario in Bogotá, Colombia. 

Oluwatimilehin Osoko 

My name is Osoko Oluwatimilehin (Timi), and I am a PhD student in Marine Affairs at the University of Rhode Island. My research is centered on the blue economy, with a focus on Rhode Island’s coastal and marine environment. I study how offshore development reshapes maritime access and what these changes mean for fishing livelihoods. My work examines offshore activities, changes in access to marine spaces, impacts on income stability, and how fishing communities respond and adapt. I hold a bachelor’s degree in Forestry and Wildlife Management and a master’s degree in Forest Economics and Governance. I am particularly interested in how ocean development can move forward while supporting sustainable and resilient coastal communities. 

Sajja Panta

Sajja Panta is a third-year PhD student in Natural Resources and Environmental Studies at the University of New Hampshire. Her research explores how agroforestry can become a more viable land-use option for farmers in New England. Her work examines "both sides" of adoption: the factors that shape farmers' decisions to establish agroforestry systems, and the extent to which consumers value products grown within them. By studying both the supply and demand sides of this equation, she aims to build a fuller picture of what it would actually take for agroforestry to take root as a mainstream land-use practice in the region. More broadly, her work combines environmental valuation, survey research, GIS-based land-use analysis, and applied econometrics to better understand where tree-based agricultural systems may be feasible and how markets and policy can support sustainable land-use practices. Her interdisciplinary approach reflects a broader commitment to grounding sustainability transitions in the practical realities and incentives faced by farmers and consumers alike.

Sindhura Polepalli

Sindhura Polepalli is a Graduate Research Assistant and PhD student at the Rosenstiel School of Marine, Atmospheric, and Earth Science & the Abess Center for Ecosystem Science and Policy at the University of Miami (UM). Her research focuses on ocean governance and equity, with particular attention to environmental justice and global shipping emissions reductions. Before joining UM, she served as the Maritime Legal Consultant to the Directorate General of Shipping in the Ministry of Ports, Shipping and Waterways, Government of India. She has extensively contributed to the development and implementation of law of the sea and international law of shipping, including protection and preservation of the marine environment, illegal, unregulated, and unreported fishing, and seafarers and human rights law. She has engaged in national maritime legislation and policy drafting and international maritime cooperation for India, including at the International Maritime Organization. She is also a member of the National Committee to implement Maritime India Vision 2030, signed by the Prime Minister. Previously, she served in the legal office of the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (ITLOS), Hamburg. Mrs. Polepalli was a contributing author for the third United Nations (UN) World Ocean Assessment and is a Member of the Pool of Experts for the UN Regular Process for Global Reporting and Assessment of the State of the Marine Environment. She was also enlisted as a Fisheries Global and Regional Processes Specialist for the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). She has served as a Visiting Lecturer on International Laws on Maritime Safety for the Master of Arts (M.A.) programme in Maritime Studies at the University of Mumbai. She graduated from the Summer Academy of the International Foundation for the Law of the Sea (Germany), Rhodes Academy of Oceans Law and Policy (Greece) and the Yeosu Academy of the Law of the Sea (Republic of Korea). She is a law graduate from the Government Law College, Mumbai, and is enrolled as an Advocate with the Bar Council of India. She earned an LL.M. with distinction in International Maritime Law from IMO International Maritime Law Institute (IMO-IMLI), Malta, where she was awarded the Maltese Government Prize for Best Performance in the Law of the Sea.

Archana Prasad

Archana Prasad, PhD is an environmental scientist who specializes in climate change resilience. She earned her Ph.D. in Environmental Science and Management from Montclair State University (MSU) in January 2025, following a Master’s degree in Sustainability Science (2018) from MSU and a Bachelor's in Civil and Environmental Engineering from the New Jersey Institute of Technology (2013). Her doctoral dissertation focused on coupled impacts of regional climate change and land-use shifts in the Northeast United States, mapping out critical implications of trends in climate extremes and bumblebee habitat suitability. Utilizing CMIP6 climate projections paired with machine-learning based land-use models, her predictive analysis forecasts environmental and ecosystem shifts through the year 2050. Since then, Archana has led efforts to quantify New Jersey’s natural capital at the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (NJDEP)’s Office of Economic Analysis. She is currently an Eagleton Postdoctoral Science Fellow placed at the New Jersey Board of Public Utilities. 

Anu Rai

Anu is a PhD candidate at Virginia Tech in the Department of Forest Resources and Environmental Conservation and a fellow of the Global Change Center. Her research examines fishery management through the lens of relational governance, asking how social-psychological experiences of belonging shape the effectiveness of collaborative institutions. Drawing on organizational belonging theory, she integrates three constructs, perceived insider status, psychological ownership, and organizational identification, to understand how individuals come to feel connected to the institutions they are affiliated with. Her dissertation research centers on small-scale fisheries in the Brazilian Amazon and AWFISHNET, a continent-wide network of African women fisheries.Her work bridges social psychology and environmental governance, arguing that institutions are made effective not only through formal rules and incentive structures but through the relational ties that sustain member commitment even when individual gain might otherwise be rational. By connecting individual-level experiences of belonging to broader patterns of collaboration and institutional durability, her research contributes to ongoing conversations about what sustains cooperation in natural resource governance over time. With the plan to graduate in May, 2027, she is also actively seeking a postdoctoral position in this area of research.

Giselle Schmitz

I am a PhD Candidate in Geography, Environment and Geomatics at the University of Guelph in Ontario, Canada. My research focuses on blue food systems, specifically examining the trajectory of fisheries governance in North America and its implications for future resilience of coastal communities and ecosystems. Currently, I'm working alongside community partners to better understand and address static governance structures influencing access, capacity, and benefits in commercial marine fisheries in Canada’s Pacific Region. Prior to beginning my Ph.D., I worked as a Knauss Marine Policy Fellow at NOAA Fisheries and as a Luce Scholar at the Coral Triangle Center. I hold a J.D. with a concentration in Ocean and Coastal Law from the University of Oregon and a Master's degree in International Political Economy and Development from Fordham University. 

Pavithra Priyadarshini Selvakumar

Pavi Selvakumar is an environmental social scientist interested in how communities navigate sustainability, environmental justice, and resilience in the face of today’s climate challenges. She earned her Ph.D. in Environmental Science from Oklahoma State University. Her dissertation investigated how institutional structures, campus culture, state politics, and leadership priorities influence the development of sustainability initiatives at U.S. land-grant universities. During her Ph.D., she worked as a Graduate Research Assistant with the Social Dynamics team of the NSF EPSCoR S3OK project, collaborating with an interdisciplinary group of researchers to address wicked environmental problems facing the state. Pavi holds a bachelor’s degree in Information Technology from India and a master’s degree in Environmental Assessment and Management from the United Kingdom. Her interdisciplinary background drives a research approach that combines technical fluency with a strong foundation in environmental policy and social inquiry. As a postdoctoral research scientist at the Columbia Climate School, she is exploring how artificial intelligence and climate justice can be integrated to support equitable resilience planning in frontline communities.

Sarahana Shrestha

Sarahana Shrestha, PhD, is an environmental scientist and researcher whose work focuses on energy equity and environmental justice. She recently completed her PhD in Environmental Science and Management at Montclair State University, where her doctoral research applied machine learning and explainable AI to examine energy burden, infrastructure access, and transportation electrification across New Jersey communities. Her work includes NJ-EQUIP, a spatiotemporal analytics platform designed to help policymakers identify and address energy inequity, and research that has been recognized with a Best Paper Award at the IEEE Computing and Communications Workshop and Conference (CCWC) and presented at AAAI and IEEE conferences. Sarahana has presented her research directly to municipal leaders and policymakers, and her commitment to environmental justice traces back to her undergraduate advocacy work at SUNY Plattsburgh, where she helped pass a campus-wide ban on single-use plastics. She holds a B.S. in Environmental Science and a B.A. in Environmental Planning & Management from SUNY Plattsburgh.

Chun-ching Tu

Chun-Ching Tu is a Ph.D. student in Sociology at Rutgers University. His primary interests lie in environmental sociology, economic sociology, and social movements. His work investigates how states and civil societies respond to large-scale social transformations across global and local contexts. His previous research includes an analysis of how journalists negotiated editorial autonomy amid structural shifts in Taiwan’s media market, and a master’s thesis on how Taiwanese financial regulators mobilized non-financial disclosure regulations in capital markets in response to domestic controversies and global net-zero pressures. Chun-Ching’s current research focuses on the emergence, transformations, and consequences of transnational climate finance governance.

Suraj Upadhaya

Dr. Suraj Upadhaya is an assistant professor of sustainable systems at Kentucky State University. His research focuses on sustainability issues in coupled human-environment systems, with interests in natural resource management, climate resilience, ecosystem restoration, sustainable agriculture, and ecosystem services. Using interdisciplinary approaches that integrate social science, geospatial analysis, and environmental modeling, he studies how policies, institutions, and stakeholder collaboration influence sustainability outcomes across rural and working landscapes. His current research includes watershed management, post-mining landscape restoration in Appalachia, adoption of conservation practices, social-ecological dynamics of agroforestry and agrovoltaics, and climate-smart agriculture. He is committed to advancing community-engaged, policy-relevant research that supports resilient and equitable sustainability transitions. 

Gustavo Valdivia

Gustavo Valdivia Corrales is an anthropologist and filmmaker whose work examines climate precarity, environmental governance, and more than human ethnography in high altitude mountain environments. His long term research centers on the Quelccaya Ice Cap in the Peruvian Andes—the largest tropical glacier on Earth—where he collaborates with glacier scientists and Indigenous alpaca herders to understand how cryospheric change reshapes territories, livelihoods, and climate knowledge. Initiated during his doctoral studies in anthropology at Johns Hopkins University and building on an M.A. in Climate and Society from Columbia University, this project bridges natural sciences and ethnography through long term fieldwork among Indigenous alpaca herders and participation in multiple ice coring expeditions to Quelccaya's summit, located at an elevation of 18,600 feet. Gustavo currently coordinates the working team for the proposed Quelccaya National Protected Area at the Byrd Polar and Climate Research Center at The Ohio State University, serves as in country strategic advisor to Water Witness International on Fair Water Footprints, and previously led Oxfam Peru's Just Energy Transition agenda with Indigenous and fisherfolk communities affected by the oil industry in Peru. He also served as a Chapter Scientist for the IPCC Sixth Assessment Report (AR6) and currently teaches anthropology in the Department of Social and Political Sciences at Universidad del Pacífico in Lima, Peru.

Ben Williamson

I’m a third-year PhD student in Geography at Montana State University, working at the intersection of energy politics and democratic theory. My dissertation looks at how large-scale transmission infrastructure built by private merchant developers reshapes governance, political economy, and democratic participation. Focusing on a proposed 420-mile high-voltage transmission line from eastern Montana to western North Dakota, my research asks what happens to participatory governance and the democratic function of climate infrastructure when it’s built through a private model, and whether these arrangements narrow or displace the arenas in which the relationship between private capital, the state, and public benefit gets negotiated. My path to this project runs through my professional experience in environmental policy and program-building: after I finished my master’s from the Yale School of the Environment, where I trained in the policy sciences, I spent five years leading a research non-profit, followed by a year managing an EPA-funded technical assistance center advancing energy and environmental justice with Tribal nations and rural communities across the West. While that program was cut in 2025, I’m now a Project Manager for Montana EPSCoR alongside my PhD work. I also hold a B.S. in Ecology from the University of Montana