Emmett Interdisciplinary Program in Environment and Resources
Leona is pursuing a PhD in the Emmett Interdisciplinary Program in Environment and Resources (E-IPER). Her research lies at the intersection of urban ecosystem ecology and human geography, developing new, comprehensive lenses into urban biogeochemistry using a socioecological framework. She is a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow and a Knight-Hennessy Scholar.
Before Stanford, Leona worked as a research technician at the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center, designing technologically innovative climate change experiments, and she earned her Bachelor of Science in Biology at George Washington University.