I am a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Princeton School of Public & International Affairs (SPIA) at the Center for Policy Research on Energy & the Environment (C-PREE) directed by Dr. Michael Oppenheimer. I conduct collaborative, applied research on equitable climate adaptation and administrative law – linking interdisciplinary topics in multi-level regulatory governance, urban planning, environmental justice, climate/environmental data stewardship, and decision sciences. I am actively involved in community-based and co-produced work, including with: the Megalopolitan Coastal Transformation Hub (MACH) consortium housed at Rutgers; the NYC Resilient Coastal Communities Project housed at Columbia; and a consortium of researchers, practitioners, and advocates collaborating in the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' NY/NJ Harbor and Tributaries Study (HATS) region – with a current focus on compound flooding.
I completed my PhD from Princeton SPIA in 2026, with my dissertation titled "Administrative Policy Pathways toward Equitable Climate Adaptation: Governance, Funding, & Policy Preferences". During my graduate studies, I regularly served as the lead instructor for a co-taught Climate and Environmental Justice course with the NJ Prison Teaching Initiative, and worked as a Graduate Fellow at both the NYC Mayor's Office of Climate & Environmental Justice and the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA). I was also twice the Assistant Instructor for a Princeton SPIA undergraduate course, The Environment: Science and Policy.
Prior to my PhD, I served for 5 years as the first Sustainability Program Manager at Swarthmore College (in the Philadelphia metropolitan area) – where I helped to launch the Office of Sustainability and to facilitate environmental and climate institutional decision-making, in conjunction with both senior administrators and the wider campus community. During that time, I completed a part-time, executive master's degree in Sustainable Urban Development from the University of Oxford (2019). I also hold a BA in Psychology from Swarthmore (2014), and subsequently worked as a full-time Research Assistant at the Earth Institute at Columbia University.