Home school/department at Tufts:
Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy
Previous education (undergrad/grad):
BA, Brandeis University; JD Columbia Law School
Previous work experience including internships:
Lecturer: Boston College (International Environmental Science and Policy, Indigenous Rights and Natural Resources)
Teaching Fellow: Harvard University (Critical Analysis of Environmental Systems)
Consultant: Plan International (Kenya, Thailand, Bangladesh, India)
Attorney: Arent Fox (NY), Advocates for Children (NY), Cultural Survival (Panama)
Law Clerk: Center for Justice in International Law
Primary research interests:
Common Pool resources, Fisheries, Rights-based Development, Hydro-electric Dams and Indigenous Peoples
Other water related experiences:
Volunteer translator at a cholera clinic in Belize
Skills (software, language, etc):
Spanish, French, Portuguese, German, Latin, Italian
Awards and fellowships:
Provost Fellowship, CIERP Fellowship, Joseph Harrison-Francis H. Russell Fellowship, UNFF-Netherlands Fellowship
Publications:
“Regional Integrated Land Management: A Proposal for Confronting Global Environmental Degradation” PON- Harvard Law School, August 2011
“Reflections on the Hague Conference on Agriculture, Food Security and Climate Change” International Development, Environment and Sustainability Journal, December 2010
Conference Presentations:
“Climate Change and Environmental Health in the Arctic and Sub-Arctic” European Geophysical Union General Assembly, April 2012
“Water-borne Infections, Weather Variability and Climate Change” American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, December 2012
“Hydroelectric Dams, Indigenous Communities and Conservation” WAZE Conservation Symposium, Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine, April 2011
“A Working Group Model for REDD Implementation” Scaling and Governance Conference- Wageningen University (Netherlands), November 2010