I am a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) at the Department of Environmental Economics and Management at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. I received my PhD from the Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics at UC Berkeley.

I am a development economist who combines applied and structural methods to study how agricultural households interact with imperfect markets.  One strand of research focuses on identifying misallocation from different market failures. I also have ongoing projects studying the effects of cassava drying technology on commercial and quality upgrading in Uganda, the impacts of large-scale land transactions on local economic outcomes in Ethiopia, the impacts of postharvest loan programs on farmer welfare under price uncertainty, and the estimation of multi-stage agricultural production functions. 

Before starting my PhD, I graduated from Tufts University and worked as a Senior Research Assistant at the International Food Policy Research Institute. I have lived in Ghana, Tanzania, and Uganda and also conducted research in Ethiopia, India, Kenya, and Nigeria. In 2013, I was a semifinalist on College Jeopardy!