I use collaborative research and holistic analysis approaches to describe systems and model decision impact pathways. I work with diverse groups including researchers, food activists, small-scale farmers and indigenous communities to address issues of direct relevance and offer new lenses through which to view the development process. My work is related to human ecology, ethnobotany and agrobiodiversity.

Interests

  • Decision analysis
  • Participatory approaches
  • Transdisciplinary approaches
  • Stochastic models
  • Agroecology
  • Agrobiodiversity
  • Biodiversity
  • Conservation
  • Human ecology
  • Ethnobiology
  • Ethnbotany

Werdegang

  • Ph.D. Agricultural Sciences, 2018
    University of Kassel, Germany

  • M.Sc. Sustainable International Agriculture / International Organic Agriculture, 2011
    University of Göttingen & University of Kassel, Germany

  • B.A. Human Ecology, 2003
    College of the Atlantic, Bar Harbor, Maine

  • A.A. Natural Resources Management, 2001
    Sterling College, Vermont