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Washington, District Of Columbia, United States

Washington D.C. Metro Area

Advised companies around setting and implementing responsible supply chain policies and investing in scaled place-based initiatives in commodity-producing regions.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

Worked with forest products companies to expand responsible forest management and with diverse stakeholders to scale efforts to address ecosystem conversion and degradation in agricultural frontiers.

WRI is a non-partisan global research organization that seeks to create equity and prosperity through sustainable natural resource management.Worked with Global Forest Watch and Forest Legality Alliance teams on an assortment of projects.

Connecticut And New Hampshire

The Yale School Forests comprise 11,000 acres across New England, which Masters students manage as a production forest within annual sustainable cut limits, and considering wildlife habitat, water quality, and climate change pressures.Maintained forest infrastructure and property boundaries. Designed, executed, and analyzed a forest inventory, and selected forest stands to treat based on the results. Wrote management prescriptions, marked 446,000 board feet of pine and hardwood saw timber, laid out harvests according to best management practices, and used GPS and GIS to map timber sales.

New Haven, Connecticut

TFD is a multi-stakeholder dialogue platform and process that convenes forest sector stakeholders to solve cutting-edge and controversial forest policy challenges.Developed content for and coordinated dialogues in the US and Indonesia, which brought together over 100 participants from 20 countries, to address the challenges with implementing corporate and governmental zero deforestation commitments. Authored background papers, presented findings, drafted dialogue summaries, and managed relationships with partners.

New Haven, Connecticut

GEM is a center at Yale University that develops problem-oriented solutions to environmental governance challenges.Researched, wrote, and edited papers identifying innovative solutions to international and domestic forest governance challenges, drawing on the disciplines of political science, law, and forest science. Papers addressed topics including private forest conservation in Liberia, timber trade, legality verification, REDD+, and integration of community resource rights into zero deforestation policies.

Memphis, Tennessee; Washington, Dc

International Paper is the world's largest pulp and paper company.Developed recommendations for the company around issues of timber legality under the US-EU free trade negotiations, corporate and governmental zero deforestation commitments, and risks in the company's worldwide wood fiber supply chain. Discussed findings with environmental trade policy leaders across Washington, and interviewed global directors of fiber procurement.

Bogor, Indonesia

CIFOR is a leading international research organization in the fields of forest science, management, and governance.Coauthored papers analyzing the impacts of the EU-Indonesia Voluntary Partnership Agreement on the Indonesian timber trade, and on the legality of the EU Timber Regulation in light of World Trade Organization treaty law.

New York, New York

The International Environmental Law Clinic provides students an opportunity to conduct term-time applied research projects.Authored a comparative analysis of Liberian and Brazilian forestry law to inform the drafting of new regulations to govern timber harvesting on private land in Liberia.

Monrovia, Liberia

The EPA is Liberia's government agency responsible for environmental regulation and enforcement.Spearheaded a team of agency officials to redesign and implement revisions to the EPA's environmental impact assessment regime; Drafted a national oil spill contingency plan as the EPA's representative on an inter-ministerial team of experts; Implemented improvements to the country's environmental permit monitoring and enforcement system.

Middle East

The Fulbright-Hays program sends American professionals abroad to improve their understanding of other countries and peoples.Investigated water and energy supply and management infrastructure in Egypt, Israel, Jordan, and the Occupied Palestinian Territories, explored challenges with decision-makers, and presented options for cooperative regional governance structures.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

ELI is is a non-profit, non-advocacy environmental group, which specializes in producing publications and research for diverse stakeholders.Managed production of two edited volumes on post-conflict peacebuilding and natural resource management, as well as intern and cartographer contributions to the entire seven-volume series; Collaborated on research concerning biodiversity adaptation to climate change, brownfields, invasive species, and water governance.

J.D., Environmental And International Law

Activities and Societies: Environmental Law Journal, Environmental Law Society

Master Of Forestry, Forest Resources Management And Policy

Activities and Societies: Society of American Foresters, International Society of Tropical Foresters

B.A., International And Global Studies

Activities and Societies: A cappella, Big Brothers and Big Sisters

European Politics And Society

Activities and Societies: Assistant English and American History teacher at a Danish high school for disadvantaged students