Leona Neftaliem

Leona Neftaliem, from Alexandria, Virginia, is pursuing a PhD in environment and resources at Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability. She graduated from George Washington University with a bachelor's degree in biology and a minor in sustainability. Leona is interested in exploring local carbon budgets and air quality along rural-urban population gradients and economic gradients, and developing new, comprehensive lenses into biogeochemistry using a socioecological framework. Additionally, she aims to understand community perceptions of and responses to climate change to identify emission risk tolerance and the consequences of climate burdens. Before Stanford, she worked as a research technician at the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center, designing technologically innovative climate change experiments. She is a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow, a Stanford Enhancing Diversity in Graduate Education (EDGE) Fellow, and a Stanford School of Sustainability Dean's Graduate Scholar.