About me

I am a Senior Instructional Professor in the Kenneth C. Griffin Department of Economics and the Institute for Climate and Sustainable Growth  at the University of Chicago.  I earned my PhD in Economics from the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) in 2017.  

After completing my PhD, I served as an Associate at the Brattle Group from 2017 to 2019, focusing on projects related to environmental damages and market competition. From 2019 to 2025, I taught microeconomic theory and environmental economics at the College of the Holy Cross.  

My current research examines the unanticipated impacts of productivity-enhancing agricultural interventions on household allocations and environmental outcomes, with a particular emphasis on Sub-Saharan Africa. My work is broadly situated within environmental, agricultural, climate change, labor, and development economics.  

I grew up on the south side of Chicago and attended Mt. Carmel High School. I received my B.A. in Economics from the College of the Holy Cross. After graduation, I worked as an economic consultant at Chicago Partners LLC, supporting projects in antitrust, accounting, intellectual property, international trade and investment, labor, finance, securities, and valuation. In 2010, I returned to academia, earning an M.S. in Economics from Tufts University, followed by an M.A. and PhD in Economics from UCSB.