About me

I draw from social and natural sciences to learn about socio-environmental change and how today’s salient human-nature relationships can be marshaled to enact more just and sustainable worlds.

I am currently a scientist at The Nature Conservancy (TNC) in Colorado where I apply this approach to understand renewable energy transitions. I use remote sensing data, big data, social data, Bayesian hierarchical models and geographic informaiton systems to characterize and project socio-environmental changes associated with the buidout of renewable energy in the Great Plains. I work with colleagues and policymakers to inform renewable energy siting and design. I also lead TNC Colorado’s electrical transmission policy work.

I bring my joy for birding, painting, Bayesian inference, and outdoor adventure into my research as much as possible, though I have yet to figure out a way of incorporating my enthusiasm for sourdough baking.

From 2021-2024 I was a Gund Postdoctoral Associate a at the University of Vermont, where I worked with Rachelle Gould and Brian Beckage. I completed my PhD in Summer 2021 at the University of British Columbia with Dr. Kai Chan. Before coming to UBC, I received a BA from Harvard University magna cum laude in Environmental Science and Public Policy, where I worked with Dr. Elizabeth Wolkovich, and Dr. Mary Caswell Stoddard.