About

For over a decade, I’ve led research and advocacy efforts for a range of organizations, all centered around one core, increasingly urgent, question: how do climate change impacts affect human migration, and how can policy better protect people’s rights on the move?

Currently, I lead research on community-wide planned relocation at Human Rights Watch, and am an advisory committee member of the Platform on Disaster Displacement. I also recently catalyzed the launch of a new Global Coalition on Dignified Climate Relocation.

My interdisciplinary doctoral research focused on the outcomes and governance of community-wide planned relocations as both a strategy for climate change adaptation and a durable solution for disaster-displaced persons, and directly informs my current work. I hold a PhD in interdisciplinary environmental social science from Stanford, an MSc in Refugee and Forced Migration Studies from Oxford, and a BA in Sustainable Development and Human Rights from Columbia.

Previously I worked on climate displacement for the United Nations Refugee Agency, Internal Displacement Monitoring Center, and the Nansen Initiative, among other organizations.

My research has been published in peer reviewed journals such as Nature Climate Change, Nature Communications, Global Environmental Change and Climate Policy, and covered by global media outlets such as the Guardian, Al Jazeera, NPR, and the BBC.

I believe that human connection is the most important currency of our lifetimes. If anything on this page resonates, please reach out!