OUR TEAM

Leadership

  • Jonathan Colmer

    UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA

    Jonathan is Co-Founder and Director of the Environmental Inequality Lab and Associate Professor at the University of Virginia's Department of Economics. His research combines data with insights from economic theory and environmental science to understand how economic activity and the environment influence one another.

  • John Voorheis

    U.S. CENSUS BUREAU

    John is Co-Founder and Lead Researcher of the Environmental Inequality Lab and a Principal Economist in the Center for Economic Studies at the U.S. Census Bureau. His research combines administrative records with survey data to better understand the economic well-being of individuals, with a focus on the effects of environmental inequality.

Pre-Doctoral Research Assistants

  • Kate Bachman

    University of Virginia

  • Arnav Dharmagadda

    University of Virginia

  • Elizabeth Shiker

    University of Virginia

  • Nick Silvas

    University of Virginia

  • Ary Singh

    University of Virginia

  • Ezgi Stump

    University of Virginia

  • Natasha Swindle

    University of Virginia

U.S. Census Bureau Researchers

  • Kendall Houghton

    Economist — Center for Economic Studies

  • Eva Lyubich

    Economist - Center for Economic Studies

Research Fellows

  • Jenny Withrow

    Environmental Inequality Lab

  • Tridevi Chakma

    Environmental Inequality Lab

Graduate Student Research Fellows

  • Ian Hardman

    UC Berkeley

  • Suvy Qin

    UC Berkeley

  • Cameron Scalera

    Columbia

  • Grant Seiter

    University of Virginia

Research Collaborators

PAT BAYLIS, Assistant Professor, University of British Columbia

PETER BERGMAN, Associate Professor, University of Texas at Austin

JUDSON BOOMHOWER, Assistant Professor, University of California, San Diego

MARSHALL BURKE, Associate Professor, Stanford University

JANET CURRIE, Henry Putnam Professor of Economics and Public Affairs, Princeton University

ELEANOR KRAUSE, Assistant Professor, University of Kentucky

JAY SHIMSHACK, Professor of Public Policy and Economics, University of Virginia

REED WALKER, TransAmerica Professor of Business Strategy and Associate Professor of Economics, University of California, Berkeley