About

The clean energy transition depends on minerals like cobalt, copper, and lithium, but the people who mine them are too often left out of the conversations that shape their lives.

I'm a researcher and fundraiser focused on resource governance and artisanal and small-scale mining. For my master's at the University of Michigan, I worked with Dr. Brandon Finn to analyze interviews with artisanal cobalt and copper miners in Kolwezi, DRC, examining what they told us about labor, displacement, and legitimacy in the supply chains that run through their communities. That research is published in Energy Research & Social Science. I've also worked on formalization policy for gold mining in the Amazon Basin with the U.S. State Department, critical-minerals policy briefs with the National Wildlife Federation, and an international ASM research synthesis convened through the University of Notre Dame.

Before graduate school, I spent over four years at the Natural Resource Governance Institute in New York and London. I coordinated proposals that helped secure more than $2.1 million from climate and governance foundations, funding energy-transition and anti-corruption programs across 19 countries. I also chaired NRGI's global DEI Action Group.

I care about this work because good governance is what decides whether the energy transition is just or simply extractive by another name. I'm currently open to consultancy, fundraising, research, and advocacy work.

Outside of work, I split my time between the US and Europe. I’m a distance runner, usually training for my next marathon, and when I’m not running I’m hiking, cycling, camping, or writing in my journal.