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Daniel Bigelow is an assistant professor in the Department of Applied Economics at Oregon State University.

Heidi Schweizer is an assistant professor of agricultural economics at North Carolina State University.

Sarah E. Null is an associate professor in the Department of Watershed Sciences at Utah State University.

James Priest was a 2022-2023 conservation law fellow with PERC’s Conservation Law and Policy Center. James graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles in 2019 with a B.A. in philosophy and a B.A. in history. He is currently a third-year law student at the Antonin Scalia Law School at George Mason University. Prior toContinue reading “James Priest”

Christina Babbitt is a former director of Climate Resilient Water Systems at the Environmental Defense Fund. She is currently a University of California, Berkeley Haas Executive MBA candidate.

Hilary Byerly is a behavioral economist and a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Wyoming. Her work studies how people manage the natural environment, especially providing public benefits, like biodiversity and risk mitigation, from private lands.

Laura Gigliotti is a postdoc in the Middleton Lab at the University of California, Berkeley. Her research focuses on understanding links between individual, population, and community-level processes, which in turn can be used to help inform management decisions.

Drew Bennett is the Whitney MacMillan Professor of Practice of Private Lands Stewardship in the Haub School of Environment and Natural Resources at the University of Wyoming. Drew’s work focuses on strategies to balance agricultural production and the conservation of wildlife and other natural resources on private lands in the American West. He has previouslyContinue reading “Drew Bennett”

Eamon Espey is pursuing a master’s degree in geospatial data sciences at the University of Michigan School for Environment and Sustainability.