I grew up in a rur­al part of the Ozark Moun­tains. I’m great at con­struc­tion and swing­ing a pick. Between col­lege and grad school I lived in Bal­ti­more for five years. When I left for grad school, I was a tenured researcher in a genet­ics lab and had a seat on the board of a com­mu­nity devel­op­ment cor­po­ra­tion. I came to ERG in attempts to merge my inter­ests of research with imple­ment­ing projects that address big social or envi­ron­men­tal prob­lems, with par­tic­u­lar empha­sis on pover­ty and pow­er imbalances.

Cur­rent: Post-doc­tor­al fel­low at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Hawai’i, Manoa