I am a researcher, data wrangler, and analyst working at the intersection of environmental studies, political economy, and climate policy. I hold a B.A. in Environmental Studies from Amherst College (2015) and an M.S. in Political Science from the University of Oregon (2022), where I am currently a Ph.D. Candidate in Environmental Studies, Science, and Policy, defending in Spring 2026.
My dissertation, "Full 'Green' Ahead: Energy Facility Siting and Environmental Inequality Formation in the 'Green' Transition," asks whether the past two decades of energy facility siting have reinforced or disrupted patterns of environmental inequality. Using a continental-scale panel dataset spanning 2001–2019, I cross-reference EIA facility data with census tract demographics to examine how race, income, and political power shape where energy infrastructure lands, and who bears its costs. The core findings suggest the green transition doesn't eliminate environmental inequality, it reconfigures it. Different communities now shoulder renewable energy's burdens than historically bore fossil fuels', but burden-bearing itself persists as a structurally determined outcome. Addressing it demands redesigning the siting process itself, not just swapping technologies.
My broader research sits at the confluence of energy transitions, climate policy, and social movements — spanning sociotechnical regimes and carbon majors, U.S. electricity and grid politics, climate justice, and the politics of rural land use and infrastructure siting. I have contributed to NSF-funded research on the social reception of energy in the developing world and on political and economic behavior in oil and gas toward decarbonization, and co-authored a chapter on international environmental regimes in the Routledge Handbook of Global Environmental Politics (2022).
My career began in electoral and community organizing, directing canvass operations for Environment Minnesota in Minneapolis, Minnesota and the Community Voters Project in Pueblo, Colorado and serving as State Operations Director for NextGen Climate in New Hampshire during the 2016 cycle. That work evolved into further political campaign operations and data focused work, first as Membership Manager and, later, as Data and Analysis Manager, at Corporate Accountability, an international nonprofit headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts aimed at reducing corporate influence on climate and public health policy. Corporate targets included the likes of GE, Philip Morris, Exxon Mobil, and Veolia.
Since entering the Ph.D. program in 2019, I've kept one foot in applied work. After teaching Environmental Studies and Political Science from 2019 to 2023, I expanded into private- and public-sector consulting. I began building databases and information systems on a contract basis for local labor federations. This work grew into a statewide contract with the Oregon state federation of the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) and, ultimately, a full-time appointment as Data Specialist for the Oregon AFT state federation. In parallel, I worked with Climate Finance Solutions, a global climate consultancy, where I designed and built the information architecture underlying their climate funding intelligence platform, a proprietary database mapping the non-dilutive funding landscape for high-impact climate organizations that has since evolved into a commercial product.
Across all of it — organizing, research, analytics, labor, climate — the throughline is the same: information systems and rigorous analysis in service of mission-driven work.
I have been recognized with the Lokey Science Award from the UO Division of Graduate Studies, the Amherst Memorial Fellowship from Amherst College, and the Frédéric Bastiat Fellowship from the Mercatus Center at George Mason University.