Welcome to Brazen Careerist!

About Me

I am interested in environmental justice and international development policy. I do work surrounding public infrastructure and collective action problems, specifically relating to water, sanitation, and agriculture. I have done research on water, agriculture, and related policy with the Georgia Department of Natural Resources, Stanford Civil Engineering, and The World Bank. Last summer I spent two months in Senegal as the GIS Field Manager of a Stanford/World Bank research project on water and sanitation. At Stanford University, I have been an elected member of the Undergraduate Senate and am currently a member of the Stanford Daily Editorial Board. I will be spending 6 weeks at a public policy fellowship in Princeton this summer. The next 6 weeks I will be doing a study with the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama on the sustainability of a sanitation system, with the goal of providing policy suggestions on future projects.

Work History

• Stanford Civil Engineering
• Researcher
• September 2008 to Present

• Research on water and sanitation in developing countries, GIS, pricing, project sustainability, sense of ownership

• World Bank/Stanford CEE/VATech
• GIS FIeld Manager
• Febuary 2009 to August 2009

• Planned logistics and supervised 3 weeks of survey fieldwork of 3 enumerator teams for countrywide study of water use in 47 rural communities. Included on-site and remote technical support for PDA survey and GPS tools and coordinating revisions to sample frame as needed.
  Provided on-site data management and quality control for 1900 household surveys and community leader interviews.

• The Stanford Daily
• Editorial Board

• Member of 5 person board, independent commentary.

Education

• Stanford University
• B.A. Environmental Anthropology, Environmental Engineering, Latin American Studies, Spanish and Portuguese
• 2007 - 2011