Kelsey is a PhD candidate, focusing on qualitative research spanning the fields of global climate and environmental politics, political ecology, critical development studies, human and Indigenous rights, and environmental conflict.
Lily is a Master’s student in the Energy and Resources Group. Her research focuses on expanding utility access for medically vulnerable and low-income American communities.
Sarah Sarfaty Epstein is a first year M.S. student interested in landscape-scale climate resilience decision making in California’s agriculture sector, particularly at the agriculture-energy-water nexus. Currently, Sarah is part of an equitable agrivoltaics research team, as the Berkeley Food Institute’s Policy Assistant.
Sarah has held a variety of professional roles in the environmental and human services sectors, most recently as an Associate at Ross Strategic where she worked on various food system, rural development and energy resource projects....
Alex Hall Rocha is a Master’s student at the Energy and Resources Group. Her interests include community-based participatory research and how it can be used to address cases of environmental injustice.
Sean Brown is a first year Master’s student interested in using the framework of complex systems to better understand natural and human subsystems as parts of a larger, integrated system, and to identify interactions and feedbacks between these domains in order to effectively address major environmental issues.
Decision Support for Multi-benefit Urban Water Infrastructure (PhD ’18)
Sasha Harris-Lovett received a PhD from the Energy and Resources Group in 2018. Her dissertation research focused on urban water and wastewater management, decision analysis for socio-environmental problems, and collaborative environmental planning. She is dedicated to making science accessible to students, policy-makers, and community members. She was awarded an NSF Graduate Research Program Fellowship, earned an MS from ERG in 2013, and graduated from Harvard in 2007 with a bachelor’s...
A Critical Analysis of the Environmental Impact Assessment for Costa Rica’s Siquirres Hydroelectric Project (MS ’97) Can Household Consumers Save the Wild Fish? Lessons from a Sustainable Seafood Advisory (PhD ’10)
Urban Water’s Hydra: Stormwater’s Problematization in LA (MA ’14) Measuring Drinking Water Affordability and Sustainability (PhD ’20) At ERG, Jess (PhD 2019) co-developed metrics for water affordability in the state’s first human right to water tracking tool with CalEPA’s Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment. Jess has also conducted research in ecological economics and sustainability science. Jess was a UC Berkeley Dissertation Year (2019) and National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow (2012-2015). She holds an M.S. in Environmental Engineering, an M.S. in ERG, and a B.A...
