Becca is a graduate researcher and second-year master’s student in the Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management at Cornell University, concentrating in food and agriculture economics. Her current research, conducted under the advisement of Professor Becca Jablonski, using econometric methods to examine how local procurement market incentives can increase the use of sustainable agricultural practices. Her past experiences include agricultural policy and natural resource management with the Colorado Department of Agriculture and the Colorado Division of Water Resources, assisting with Office of Extension research with Colorado State University and Cornell University, and an Economics Research Fellowship at the USDA Division of Human Dimensions. Her ambitions include working in regional and rural economics, specially in agricultural economic development.