About Me

I'm a PhD candidate in the School of Public Policy at UMD. My research spans a range of energy, environmental, and climate change policy topics in the US and globally. I use quantitative, qualitative, and mixed methods approaches to address pragmatic policy issues.

For my dissertation, I evaluate the drivers of adoption of different classes of wildfire building codes among residential homes in the western US. I also test the degree to which wildfire risk severity mapping within states - which often underlies the rationale for where resilience policies should be implemented - predicts where wildfires actually occur. Finally, I test the changing nature of risks due to climate change and how this impacts the effectiveness of resilient building policies.