Jamie Peeler is a 2026 PERC Lone Mountain fellow and a researcher focused on wildfire risk, forest resilience, and climate impacts on people and ecosystems. She is a research scientist with the University of Montana, as well as an ORISE research fellow at the USDA Missoula Fire Sciences Laboratory in Missoula, MT. She holds aContinue reading “Jamie Peeler”
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Matt Reimer
Matt Reimer is a 2026 PERC Lone Mountain Fellow and an associate professor in the Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics at UC Davis. Matt is an environmental and natural resource economist whose research aims to improve decision-making in the conservation and management of marine and terrestrial resources. He holds a Ph.D. in Agricultural andContinue reading “Matt Reimer”
Eli Fenichel
Eli Fenichel is a 2026 PERC Lone Mountain fellow and the Knobloch Family Professor of Natural Resource Economics at the Yale School of the Environment. His research focuses on the role of natural resources as assets. His research spans how to measure and value nature and natural resources as capital for local decisions and nationalContinue reading “Eli Fenichel”
Prakash Mishra
Prakash Mishra is a 2026 PERC Lone Mountain fellow and an assistant professor at the California Institute of Technology. He is an environmental economist who uses tools from trade and industrial organization. Current projects address optimal carbon taxation of deforestation, carbon offset market design, and EU agricultural subsidy policy. He holds a Ph.D. in appliedContinue reading “Prakash Mishra”
Eric Lewis
Eric Lewis is a 2026 PERC Lone Mountain fellow as well as an assistant professor in economics at Brigham Young University. His research focuses on energy topics, especially the oil and gas industry, and he also has research on greenhouse gas emissions, electricity markets, and hurricanes. He has a Ph.D. from the University of Michigan,Continue reading “Eric Lewis”
Anna Russo
Anna Russo is a 2026 PERC Lone Mountain fellow, and is a junior fellow of the Harvard Society of Fellows, and an incoming assistant professor in the Economics Department at Harvard. Her research fields are environmental economics, public finance, industrial organization, and market design. She holds a Ph.D. in economics from MIT and a B.S.Continue reading “Anna Russo”
Juan Carlos Villaseñor-Derbez
Juan Carlos Villaseñor-Derbez is a 2026 Lone Mountain fellow, an assistant professor in the Department of Environmental Science and Policy at the University of Miami’s Rosenstiel School of Marine, Atmospheric & Earth Science, and a core faculty member at the Frost Institute for Data Science and Computing. He studies the human dimensions of marine policyContinue reading “Juan Carlos Villaseñor-Derbez”
Bethany Aragon
Bethany Aragon is a retired U.S. Army Colonel and a second-year student in the University of Wyoming’s dual J.D./M.A. program in Environment and Natural Resources. Following a distinguished military career focused on psychological operations, strategic engagement, and interagency and multi-national collaboration, she is now pursuing a second career as an environmental advocate—while embracing the outdoorContinue reading “Bethany Aragon”
David Willms
David Willms is the associate vice president for the National Wildlife Federation, working with a dynamic team of professionals and volunteers to advance our Public Lands Program, NWF Outdoors (hunting/angling advocacy), and Artemis Sportswomen Initiative. Prior to that, he served as a Natural Resource Policy Advisor to Wyoming Governor Matthew H. Mead. Before joining theContinue reading “David Willms”
Jim Magagna
Jim Magagna is the executive vice president of the Wyoming Stock Growers Association.