About Me

About Me

I am a geographer and environmental social scientist interested in the everyday politics of land and resource governance. My work interrogates the forms of expertise that emerge from policy tensions between development and ecological protection, and examines how that expertise in turn shapes large-scale environmental decision-making. I am a PhD candidate and National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC), where my doctoral research traces the scientific, technical, and legal work that underpins the federal permitting processes under the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) and the Endangered Species Act (ESA). 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.