I currently serve as the director of programs at the Compton Foundation, where I head up a grantmaking portfolio spanning climate change, democracy, reproductive justice, and peaceful foreign policy, with a focus on movement-building and culture change. In this role, I’m stewarding the Foundation’s strategy as it redistributes its assets ahead of its sunset at the end of 2024.

I’m also a visiting scholar at the Center for Right-Wing Studies at UC Berkeley. My research interests include the changing climate politics of the far-right in US and Europe and the implications of the climate crisis on US political dynamics and democratic governance.

I hold a BA from Stanford University and an MPhil from the University of Cambridge, where I conducted research on the growing influence of ethnic nationalism on climate politics. I got my start as a student climate organizer and have also worked in youth leadership development, providing training and support for young people to be leaders for social and environmental justice.