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I am a lecturer in the Department of Economics at the University of the West Indies, Mona. I hold a PhD in Economics from the University of Massachusetts Amherst and study the intersection of climate change, macroeconomics, development, and environmental issues, with a specific focus on small open economies. My dissertation examined how climate change affects macroeconomic stability in small island states, focusing on how extreme weather events and climatic conditions shape fiscal space, inflation, and central bank green monetary policy. I also examined questions on the political economy of natural resource extraction in developing countries.  Increasingly, I have been interested in investigating the relationship between macroeconomic outcomes and voters' behavior in the US. I was an ELEVATE fellow, a graduate research and training program within the Energy Transition Institute at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, which engages in rigorous, interdisciplinary, evidence-based, and just solutions to the climate transition at the community and national levels, and I was a Political Economy Research Institute dissertation fellow and a Fulbright Alumnus.