Previous experiences in environmental management and policy
Prior to matriculation at UC Berkeley, I earned a Masters in Environmental Management at Duke University, with a focus in climate policy and forest resource management. At Duke, I was involved in research at the interface between science, policy, and economics. I worked at the Duke Free Air Carbon Dioxide Enrichment (FACE) experiment to investigate gaps in our scientific understanding of long term soil carbon storage and the effectiveness of forest carbon offsets. I analyzed offset policy provisions during the development of the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, the first regional cap-and-trade carbon policy implemented in the United States. I also worked on an interdisciplinary team to evaluated the technical and economic feasibility of biological and geologic carbon sequestration.
