I am an Assistant Professor of Economics at The New School for Social Research in New York, where I study the overlapping relationships between people, the economy, and the environment. 

Prior to completing my PhD and beginning my career in academia,  I worked as an econometrician and project manager on demand forecasting in regulated industries, specializing in the relationship between technological change and demand for products whose prices are not determined by markets. 

I am interested in questions related to:

• The economic growth and development of regions;

• The production, distribution, and consumption of energy;

• Labor, both paid and unpaid, and its relationship to consumption and production processes; and

• Critiques of individual, firm, and government-scale sustainability efforts.

Specializations: Feminist Political Economy, Ecological Economics, Urban and Regional Economics, Applied Econometrics, Qualitative/Ethnographic Methods, History of Economic Thought

Research Interests: The critique of political economy, household production, critiques of sustainability, theories of consumption, energy (production and consumption), local and regional economic development policy, waste and discards, unwaged work

Personal: I am originally from Montreal, Quebec. I live with my occasional co-author Chris and our two dogs. For over 20 years I have been involved in efforts to accompany people who have been impacted by the so-called criminal justice system through organizations such as Alternatives to Violence Project, Courtwatch NYC, New York Yearly Meeting Inside Outside Letter Writing Collective, Portland Books Through Bars, and Project NIA/Girl Talk Chicago. I'm a semi-retired veteran of the international pop underground. For fun I play squash (badly) and knit sweaters (not badly). J'essaie d'améliorer mon français, mais c'est toute croche.