Research Assistants

Project: Environmental Performance Index

Sebastián Block Munguía is a Research Affiliate at the Yale Center for Environmental Law & Policy working on the Environmental Performance Index since September 2022. He received a Ph.D. in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology from Princeton University in 2022. His doctoral research focused on...

Gillian Cowley is an MEM/JD joint degree candidate with Yale School of the Environment and Vermont Law School. At Yale, Gillian is specializing in People, Equity and the Environment with a focus on land use and environmental justice. Prior to joining YCELP, Gillian just completed her second year...

Project: Yale Initiative on Sustainable Finance

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Rebecca Gillman is a second-year Masters of Public Health (MPH) candidate in Health Policy at the Yale School of Public Health. Her studies concentrate on climate change and health, with an equity and environmental justice emphasis. At Yale, Rebecca serves as Program Manager for the Medly Uganda...

Liam Gunn is a Master of Environmental Management candidate at the Yale School of the Environment (YSE).  At YSE, he specializes in environmental policy analysis, with an emphasis on environmental economics.  Before Yale, Liam was a Program Manager at The Mentor Group, where he managed a...

Charles Harper is a Master of Environmental Management candidate at the Yale School of the Environment with a specialization in Environmental Policy Analysis. He’s focusing his studies on decarbonizing the energy and transportation sectors through public policy. Prior to Yale, Charles worked at...

Phoebe Hering is a first-year MEM candidate specializing in Environmental Policy Analysis and People, Equity, and the Environment. Phoebe is focusing on the nexus of multilateral international agreements, agricultural policy, and environmental justice.  

Prior to joining YCELP, Phoebe...

Jamie Lee is a Five-Year Program Master of Environmental Management candidate at the Yale School of the Environment (YSE). She specializes in Business and the Environment with an emphasis on renewable energy policy and finance.

Jamie recently graduated from the...

Jan-Baptist Lemaire is a Belgian LL.M. student at Yale Law School (Class of 2022) and a Ph.D. Candidate at KU Leuven (Belgium) and for the Research Foundation Flanders. His Ph.D. research deals with the judicial review of discretion, in corporate and administrative law. He was written about...

Emily is a Master of Environmental Management candidate at the Yale School of the Environment. Prior to Yale, she was a policy associate at Smart Growth America in Washington, DC, where she advocated for more sustainable and equitable federal transportation policy on Capitol Hill. Previously,...