Welcome! I am a Ph.D. Candidate at UC Berkeley in the Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics. My main fields of interest include agricultural economics and international trade as well as development, remote sensing, and climate change. A connecting theme in my research is that I aim to study the determinants of why regions choose to produce the (primarily agricultural) commodities they do, and the aggregate consequences of those decisions. In my work, I examine a number of factors impacting such production decisions: including access to intermediaries, illicit crop production, historical forces, and the availability of scarce natural resources. Prior to my graduate studies, I earned a B.S. in Mathematics and Economics at the University of Minnesota. In my free time, I enjoy going up and down mountains, either on foot or on
skis.
Teaching/Useful Code
Graduate Student Instructor,
Economics C181
(International Trade, Undergraduate)
UC Berkeley
Spring 2020 and Spring 2021, Taught by Professor Andrés Rodríguez-Clare
Fall & Spring 2018 and Fall 2020, Taught by Professor Thibault Fally
Graduate Student Instructor, Public Policy 275 (Spatial Data and Analysis, Masters)
UC Berkeley
Fall 2019, Taught by Professor Solomon Hsiang
Pyomo for Economists Workshop
Tools for Planet Imagery