Graduate Students

Doctor of Philosophy

Omaya Ahmad

Omaya Ahmad

  • Ph.D. Student, School of Sustainability
  • GK-12 Fellow, Sustainability Science for Sustainable Schools, Global Institute of Sustainability

    • Omaya.Ahmad@asu.edu

      Expertise

      sustainable development, accessibility, capabilities, sustainable transportation, quality of life, equity, social justice, sustainability in the Middle East, global water scarcity and quality, climate change and water, global water policy, human health and climate, urban heat island

Sharon Amani

Sharon Amani

  • Ph.D. Student, School of Sustainability
    • Expertise

      food aid; food systems; cash and voucher transfers; local and regional procurement; livelihood strategies; vulnerability; risk mitigation; adaptation; resilience; poverty traps; food security; social-ecological systems; nested systems; institutions; markets

Julia Bausch

Julia Bausch

  • Ph.D. Student, School of Sustainability
  • M.A. , 2011, School of Sustainability

    • jcbausch@asu.edu

      Expertise

      food system sustainability; agriculture; human dimensions of agriculture; Latin America

Andrew Berardy

Andrew Berardy

  • Ph.D. Student, School of Sustainability

    • aberardy@asu.edu

      Expertise

      veganism; education; sustainability; interactional; life cycle assessment

Michael J. Bernstein

Michael J. Bernstein


Christina Brelsford

Christina Brelsford

  • Ph.D. Student, School of Sustainability

Katja Brundiers

Katja Brundiers

  • Ph.D. Student, School of Sustainability
  • Community-University Liaison, School of Sustainability

Edgar Cardenas

Edgar Cardenas


Wen-Ching Chuang

Wen-Ching Chuang

  • Ph.D. Student, School of Sustainability

    • Wen-Ching.Chuang@asu.edu

      Expertise

      Urban studies on linkages of climate change; urban morphology and human health vulnerability; remote sensing applications of urban regions; object-based and pixel-based approaches for land-cover classications; climate change adaptation policy analysis

Brendan Denker

Brendan Denker


Xiaoli Dong

  • Ph.D. Student, School of Sustainability

Nonso Emordi

Nonso Emordi

  • Ph.D. Student, School of Sustainability

Rider Foley

Rider Foley

  • Ph.D. Student, School of Sustainability

    • riderfoley@gmail.com

      Expertise

      toxins in electronics; sustainable government and policy; indexes and metrics

Felicia French

Felicia French


Erin Frisk

Erin Frisk

  • Ph.D. Student, School of Sustainability

    • Erin.Frisk@asu.edu

      Expertise

      integrating behavioral research with sustainability education pedagogy in order to educate for transformative action

Arijit Guha

Arijit Guha

  • Ph.D. Student, School of Sustainability
  • IGERT in Urban Ecology Fellow, School of Sustainability

    • aguha1@asu.edu

      (480) 727-6963

      Expertise

      land-change science; sustainable land architecture; suburbanization; ecosystem services; vulnerability resilience

Ryan Hurst

  • Ph.D. Student, School of Sustainability

David Iwaniec

David Iwaniec

  • Ph.D. Student, School of Sustainability
  • IGERT in Urban Ecology Fellow, School of Sustainability

Braden Kay

Braden Kay


Mindy Kimball

Mindy Kimball

  • Ph.D. Student, School of Sustainability

Auriane M Koster

Auriane M Koster

  • Ph.D. Student, School of Sustainability

    • auriane.koster@asu.edu

      Expertise

      My PhD research analyzes how governance contributes to energy transitions and successful renewable-energy implementation, with a case study focus in Thailand. My interests include international development, energy policy, institutional analysis, and dynamic modeling.

Dhara Kothavala

Dhara Kothavala

  • Ph.D. Student, School of Sustainability

Colin Kunzwielwer

Colin Kunzwielwer

  • Ph.D. Student, School of Sustainability

    • ckunzwei@asu.edu

      Expertise

      public health; vector-borne diseases; environmental justice; adaptation and adaptive capacity; participatory research; geographic information systems

Robert Kutter

Robert Kutter

  • Ph.D. Student, School of Sustainability

    • robert.kutter@asu.edu

      Expertise

      sustainable development; water, sanitation, and hygiene; participatory approaches; empowerment; appropriate technology

Christopher Kuzdas

Christopher Kuzdas

  • Ph.D. Candidate, School of Sustainability

    • christopher.kuzdas@asu.edu

      Expertise

      Strategic planning for sustainable natural resource governance; participatory and transformative research designs and implementation strategies; integrated water governance analysis and sustainability assessment; water conflict assessment; strategic science-society partnerships for resource management

Tamara Lawless

Tamara Lawless

  • Ph.D. Student, School of Sustainability
  • Graduate Student Representative, School of Sustainability
  • Fellow, Sustainable Schools, Global Institute of Sustainability

    • tlawless@asu.edu

      Expertise

      education; community building; sustainability transitions

Fengqiao Liu

Fengqiao Liu

  • Ph.D. Student, School of Sustainability

    • fliu34@asu.edu

      Expertise

      sustainability measures and models; landscape ecology; urban ecology

Scott McClintock

Scott McClintock


Christy L. Mercer

Christy L. Mercer

  • Ph.D. Student, School of Sustainability

    • clmercer@asu.edu

      Expertise

      growth of Sun Corridor megapolitan; socio-ecological systems; water supply; vulnerability

Tischa A. Munoz-Erickson

Tischa A. Munoz-Erickson

  • Ph.D. Student, School of Sustainability
  • IGERT in Urban Ecology Fellow, School of Sustainability

    • tischa.munoz-erickson@asu.edu

      480-965-7533

      Expertise

      human dimensions of environmental systems; adaptive governance, environmental science/policy interface; participatory decision-making; environmental values/perceptions

Sheryl Musgrove

Sheryl Musgrove

  • Ph.D. Student, School of Sustainability

    • slmusgrove@gmail.com

      Expertise

      international development; human rights; environmental justice; social justice

Scott A. Norby-Cedillo

Scott A. Norby-Cedillo

  • Ph.D. Student, School of Sustainability
  • IGERT in Urban Ecology Fellow, School of Sustainability

    • norby@asu.edu

      (480) 727-6963

      Expertise

      enviromental fluid dynamics; air quality monitoring

Daniel Nzengya

Daniel Nzengya

  • Ph.D. Student, School of Sustainability

    • dnzengya@asu.edu

      Expertise

      global environmental change; water resources management; environmental sustainability; decision-making; human response

Gerald Daniel O

Gerald Daniel O'Neill

  • Ph.D. Student, School of Sustainability
  • Program Director, Technology Entrepreneurship and Management, College of Technology and Innovation, Arizona State University-Polytechnic
  • Member, Board of Trustees, Childsplay
  • Member, Board of Directors and Officers, Arizona MultiBank

Aura Ontiveros

Aura Ontiveros

  • Ph.D. Student, School of Sustainability

    • Aura.Ontiveros@asu.edu

      Expertise

      bacterial treatment of polluted water; effects of urbanization on arbuscular mycorrhiza fungi

Yun Ouyang

Yun Ouyang

  • Ph.D. Student, School of Sustainability

    • yun.ouyang.1@asu.edu

      Expertise

      remote-sensing applications; sustainability science, urban ecology; pattern recognition

Chetan Rawal

Chetan Rawal

  • Ph.D. Student, School of Sustainability

    • cjrawal@asu.edu

      Expertise

      Smart Grid and energy infrastructure; advancing global sustainability through technology; sustainability assessment

Sandra Rodegher

Sandra Rodegher

  • Ph.D. Student, School of Sustainability
  • Graduate Research Assistant, School of Sustainability

Richard Rushforth

Richard Rushforth


Michael Sieng

Michael Sieng

  • Ph.D. Student, School of Sustainability

Susan Spierre

Susan Spierre

  • Ph.D. Student, School of Sustainability

Benjamin W. Stanley

Benjamin W. Stanley

  • Ph.D. Candidate, School of Sustainability

    • bwstanley@asu.edu

      Expertise

      urban sustainability; sustainable economic development (local and regional economies); urban political economy; interdisciplinary urban studies and comparative urban history; urban planning and new urbanism; systems theory (complex adaptive, social-ecological, and dissipative systems); social and economic geography; social/critical theory; ethics and sustainability

Jared Stoltzfus

Jared Stoltzfus


Vairavan Subramanian

Vairavan Subramanian

  • Ph.D. Student, School of Sustainability

    • vee.subramanian@asu.edu

      Expertise

      life cycle assessment; dynamic system modeling; uncertainties and variabilities in life cycle assessment; greenhouse gas modeling; product category rules and environmental product declarations

Xuyang Tang

Xuyang Tang

  • Ph.D. Student, School of Sustainability

Carissa Taylor

Carissa Taylor

  • Ph.D. Student, School of Sustainability
  • M.A., 2009, School of Sustainability

    • carissa.taylor@asu.edu

      Expertise

      food system availability; institutional design for social inclusion in farmers' markets

Craig Thomas

Craig Thomas


Madeline Tyson


Qiong Wang

Qiong Wang


Benjamin P. Warner

Benjamin P. Warner

  • Ph.D. Student, School of Sustainability

Lauren Withycombe Keeler

Lauren Withycombe Keeler

  • Graduate Student, School of Sustainability
  • Ph.D. Student, School of Sustainability
  • M.A., 2010, School of Sustainability

    • Lauren.Withycombe@asu.edu

      Expertise

      sustainability education; sustainability competencies; future thinking and anticipation; scenario development; participatory research and stakeholder engagement; sustainability transitions

Christina Wong

Christina Wong

  • Ph.D. Student, School of Sustainability

    • cpwong@asu.edu

      Expertise

      biogeochemistry; ecosystem services; ecological economics; urbanization; international development

Mark W. Wood

Mark W. Wood

  • Ph.D. Student, School of Sustainability

    • mark.wood@asu.edu

      Expertise

      sustainable cities; innovation and entrepreneurship; business case for sustainability in emerging economics

Liou Xie

Liou Xie

  • Ph.D. Candidate, School of Sustainability

    • Liou.Xie@asu.edu

      Expertise

      Liou is majored in Urban Sustainability. Her doctoral dissertation work focuses on the sustainability implications of the interactive evolvement of urban public transit and the built environment. She has been involved in urban development strategy projects funded by the World Bank and the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy.

David Yu

David Yu

  • Ph.D. Student, School of Sustainability

    • David.H.Yu@asu.edu

      Expertise

      social-ecological systems; system dynamics; agent-based modeling; environmental economics; institutional analysis; water policy; urban dynamics; decision analysis; infrastructure policy

Sainan Zhang

Sainan Zhang

  • Ph.D. Student, School of Sustainability

    • sainan.zhang@asu.edu

      Expertise

      urban sustainable development; land use/land cover change; orban socio-ecological systems; land-use policy; vulnerability; environmental justice


Count: 56

Master of Science

Joseph Fernandi

Joseph Fernandi

  • M.S. Graduate Student, School of Sustainability

Andrew Krause

Andrew Krause


Nelson Mandrell

Nelson Mandrell


Amy Minowitz

Amy Minowitz

  • M.S. Student, School of Sustainability

Ann Marie Raymondi

Ann Marie Raymondi

  • M.S. Student, School of Sustainability
    • Expertise

      Collaborative natural resource management, human dimensions of ecological restoration, landscape level fire reintroduction, social and ecological change in southeastern Arizona.

Thomas C. Redd

Thomas C. Redd

  • M.S. Student, School of Sustainability
  • Manager, Consumer Science, The Sustainability Consortium, Arizona State University

Lea Wilson

Lea Wilson

  • M.S. Student, School of Sustainability
  • Graduate Teaching Assistant, School of Sustainabiilty


Count: 7

Master of Arts

Drew Bryck

Drew Bryck


Cameron Childs

Cameron Childs

  • M.A. Student, School of Sustainability
  • Graduate Aide, The Sustainability Consortium, Global Institute of Sustainability
  • Editor-in-Chief, The Sustainability Review, School of Sustainability

    • cgchilds@asu.edu

      Expertise

      collaborative governance; adaptive capacity; strategic planning

Daniel Culotta

Daniel Culotta

  • M.A. Student, School of Sustainability

    • dculotta@asu.edu

      Expertise

      community and regional planning; sustainable urban design; resource economics; resiliency; decision-making processes; urban ecosystems

Anna Krithis

Anna Krithis

  • M.A. Student, School of Sustainability

    • akrithis@asu.edu

      Expertise

      food systems; local food systems; integrating small produces into supply chain and community food security

Nivedita Rengarajan

Nivedita Rengarajan


Cathy Rubinos

Cathy Rubinos


Briar Schoon

Briar Schoon

  • M.A. Student School of Sustainability

    • briar.schoon@asu.edu

      Expertise

      urban agriculture; sustainable food systems; environmental justice; community building; social entrepreneurship; sustainable development; educational outreach; fair trade

Lucky Sharma

Lucky Sharma

  • M.A. Student, School of Sustainability

    • lsharmal@asu.edu

      Expertise

      supply chain; carbon footprint; business and sustainability; CSR/enterprise sustaianbility; environmental policy and implication

Kathleen Talbot

Kathleen Talbot

  • M.A. Student, School of Sustainability

    • kathleen.talbot@asu.edu

      Expertise

      alternative food networks; agro-ecology; political economy; social change; Central America

Dorothy Trippel

Dorothy Trippel


Angela Xiong

Angela Xiong

  • M.A. Student, School of Sustainability

    • axiong@asu.edu

      Expertise

      food systems; community food security; nutrition; permaculture; Pacific Islands


Count: 11


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