A career grounded in science and diplomacy [LinkedIn]

My nontraditional trajectory is inspired by the scientists I worked closely with during my time as an advisor on international climate change policy at the U.S. Department of State under the Obama administration. As part of the senior team shaping the Paris Agreement, it was critical to acknowledge scientific, legal, and political realities in tandem. I found myself increasingly caught up in the details of regional climate projections and their implications for planetary and human health.

At Berkeley, I built on this professional background during my first masters degree to model the economic impacts of anthropogenic change. Following this, I brought my computational skills together with my understanding of multilateral and bilateral negotiation to model national differences in environmental policy at the RAND Corporation. Now at Stanford, I am continuing the efforts of my PhD with a postdoctoral focus at the intersection of disease ecology, decision theory, and climate science.