Areas of expertise: Applied Economics, Environmental, Energy and Resource Economics and Policy, Climate Change; Natural Hazards; Geographical Information System (GIS), Spatial Analysis.

I am a Senior Lecturer of Applied Economics and Policy (AEP) at the Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management at the SC Johnson College of Business at Cornell University. I earned a Ph.D. in economics from Florida International University in 2016 and a Master’s degree in policy economics from the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign in 2011. Prior to joining Cornell, I was a faculty member at the Department of Economics, University of Colorado Denver and the Keough School of Global Affairs, University of Notre Dame.

My research focuses on environmental and natural resource economics, with an emphasis on the economic aspects of climate change adaptation and natural hazard risk mitigation. My work also integrates interdisciplinary approaches across labor, health, development, socioeconomics, and geography. I am particularly interested in applying geographic information system (GIS) techniques to spatial cost-benefit analyses of complex environmental issues. I am currently working on several projects, including studies of household preferences for sea-level rise adaptation policies, the socioeconomic impacts and perceptions of coastal vulnerability, and the resilience of critical infrastructures in the face of hurricanes. I serve as an editorial board member of Communications Earth & Environment and Humanities and Social Sciences Communications.