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Ellen Bruno

Ellen Bruno is an assistant professor of cooperative extension in the Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics at the University of California, Berkeley.

Hilary Byerly Flint

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

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

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

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

Molly Espey

Molly Espey is a professor in the John E. Walker Department of Economics at Clemson University.

J.D. Tuccille

J.D. Tuccille is a former managing editor of Reason.com and current contributing editor. Tuccille has worked for ZDNet, the New York Daily News, and forgotten dot-coms and dot-orgs. His provocative and often witty (says he) columns on topics including civil liberties and government overreach have appeared in publications including the Arizona Republic, the Denver Post, and the Washington Times. AsContinue reading “J.D. Tuccille”

Anna Kronk

Anna Kronk is PERC’s administrative associate. Anna graduated from the University of Vermont in 2020 with a B.S. in Environmental Studies with a focus on education and stewardship. Before joining the PERC team, Anna worked and interned at The Intervale Conservation Nursery (ICN) in Burlington, VT. ICN focuses primarily on conservation tree-planting to mitigate theContinue reading “Anna Kronk”

Della Levine

Della Levine is currently a sophomore at Wesleyan University completing a double major in the College of Social Studies, a highly selective program, and Environmental Studies. Della serves as the events coordinator for Wesleyan’s chapter of ACLU. As a senior in high school, she worked on a peer-reviewed paper analyzing sea lion behavior in theContinue reading “Della Levine”

Fern Bick

Fern Bick worked with PERC as an intern for the summer of 2022. Fern first visited PERC as a toddler and has been absorbing free-market messages ever since. She started working at PERC as a summer intern in 2019, under the mentoring eyes of Sharie Rucker and Dianna Reinhart. A native of New York’s AdirondackContinue reading “Fern Bick”