About Me

About Me

I am a geographer and environmental social scientist broadly interested in the politics and practice of land and biodiversity conservation. I am a current PhD candidate and National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC), where my doctoral research investigates how the institutions, tools, and practices that have developed to implement U.S. environmental law shape its outcomes on the ground. My past work has examined conservation planning in regulatory contexts involving natural resource development, as well as the relationship between energy policy and endangered species habitat. Outside of my graduate work I have served as a program assistant at the Social Science Research Council and as a Junior Fellow with the Climate and Community Institute. I hold a BA in Environmental Studies from Bucknell University and an MA in Geography from the University of British Columbia.