I am a PhD candidate in Applied Economics at the University of Minnesota. My research focuses on environmental and natural resource economics, land use economics, ecosystem services, and geospatial analysis. My dissertation combines econometric and biophysical modeling to estimate land-use responses and ecosystem-service values at global scale and fine spatial resolution. Recent work includes a global, pixel-level land supply elasticity database at 300 m resolution and a framework for valuing avoided landslide mortality from forest cover.

I also work on integrated modeling that couples economic models with spatially explicit ecosystem-service models, including a framework for measuring the ecosystem services impacts of land-related policies in Africa, developed with collaborators at the European Commission Joint Research Centre and Wageningen University and Research. I am working on the development of a fine-scale land use / land cover projection framework for Korea, and I am collaborating with The Nature Conservancy on a related linkage focused on conservation finance and commitments in the Amazon. I have presented this work at the Global Trade Analysis Project (GTAP) annual conferences in Kigali (2025) and Kyoto (2026).

I am a student member of NatCap TEEMs (Natural Capital Alliance: The Earth-Economy Modelers) and have worked as a research assistant with the Minnesota Climate Adaptation Partnership on geospatial analysis of climate projections and cooling center accessibility. I currently teach Principles of Macroeconomics as an adjunct instructor at Augsburg University (course site). Previously, I was a Student Research Associate at the Center for Health Economics and Policy Studies (CHEPS) at San Diego State University. I completed my MA in Economics at San Diego State University and my BA in Business Administration at Eastern Washington University.