About

I graduated from Yale University's joint masters program between the School of Epidemiology and Public Health and the School of Forestry and Environmental Studies in 2007 earning both an MPH and MESc. I am now pursuing a doctoral degree at FES, focusing on issues of sustainability and innovation diffusion.

Over the past three years at Yale, I have also had the opportunity to work in the university's Office of Sustainability. My work as a research assistant in this office has centered around two main projects. I have worked to improve the move-out recycling and reuse efforts on the undergraduate campus known as Spring Salvage, increasing collection volume from 18 Tons in 2005 to 54 Tons in 2007. Additionally, I worked to envison and implement an internally focused Yale Sustainability Summit. This series of campus wide events was designed to share sustainability efforts taking place around campus, celebrate achievements, and stimulate conversations and new ideas about how to continue to improve Yale's sustainability.

Prior to arriving at Yale, I received my B.A. in Environmental Studies and Political Science from Middlebury College in Middlebury, VT in 2004. I spent my childhood on the remnants of my family's dairy farm in the small town of Winslow, Maine