Awards

Honors, Grants, and Awards

Best Graduate Student Paper Award AAEA Experimental Economics Section - July 2024 

Gamma Sigma Delta Member – The Honor Society of Agriculture, Iowa State University - April 2024 [More Information]

Research Award – Graduate and Professional Student Senate, Iowa State University - February 2024 [More Information]

Leadership Award – Graduate and Professional Student Senate, Iowa State University - February 2024 [More Information]

Research Seed Funding (Proposal Competition Winner) – International Foundation for Research in Experimental Economics (IFREE) - March 2023 

CAST Science and Communication Scholarship – Council for Agricultural Science and Technology - October 2022 [More Information] [Coverage]

National Science Foundation Research Traineeship (NRT) Scholarship – Iowa State University DataFEWSion - August 2022 [More Information] [Coverage]

Professional Advancement Grant – Graduate and Professional Student Senate, Iowa State University - August 2022

Agricultural & Applied Economics Association (AAEA) Travel Grant – AAEA Trust Committee - June 2022

Outstanding Master’s Thesis Award – Department of Agricultural, Food, and Resource Economics, Michigan State University - February 2020

Professional Development Funding – Council of Graduate Students, Michigan State University - June 2017

Best Research Presentation Award – Department of Agricultural, Food, and Resource Economics, Michigan State University - March 2017

Teaching Awards

Excellence in Classroom Instruction Award (Graduate Student) - AAEA Teaching, Learning, and Communications Section - July 2024 [More Information]

Teaching Excellence Award - Graduate College, Iowa State University - May 2023 [More Information]

Competitions Placements

Second Place, Policy Communications Competition - The Council on Food, Agricultural, and Resource Economics and AAEA Graduate Student Section, 2023 AAEA Annual Meeting, Washington, DC - July 2023 [More Information]

Third Place, Local Food Economics In-Person Data Visualization Challenge - USDA Agricultural Marketing Service and AAEA Graduate Student Section, 2023 AAEA Annual Meeting, Washington, DC - July 2023 [with Ezra Butcher and Levi Soborowicz] [More Information]

First Place, Advanced Graduate Level Case Competition - International Food and Agribusiness Management Association, Buenos Aires, Argentina - June 2018 [with Brian Bartle, Carolina Vargas Espinosa, and Samantha Padilla] [More Information]

Selected Recent Funded Workshops

Publishing Applied Economic Research on Health and Nutrition (PC52) – Post-Conference Workshop, 2023 AAEA Annual Meeting, Washington, DC, July 2023 [More Information

The 33rd Advanced School in Economic Theory: Imperfect Cognition and Economic Behaviour – Israel Institute for Advanced Studies, Jerusalem, Israel, June 2023 [More Information] [Coverage]

International Foundation for Research in Experimental Economics 2023: Adding to the Experimental Toolbox Workshop – Rice University, Houston, TX, February 2023 [More Information]  

Food Access at Dollar Stores Workshop – Gerald J. and Dorothy R. Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy, Tufts University, June 2022 [More Information