Leona Neftaliem

Leona is pursuing a PhD in the Emmett Interdisciplinary Program in Environment and Resources (E-IPER) at Stanford University. Her research lies at the intersection of urban ecosystem ecology and social-ecological systems, developing new, comprehensive lenses into urban biogeochemistry using a socioecological framework. She is a Knight-Hennessy Scholar and a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow.

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.