Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability


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  • Leona Neftaliem

    Leona Neftaliem

    Ph.D. Student in Environment and Resources, admitted Autumn 2022

    BioLeona 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.

  • Fridah Nyakundi

    Fridah Nyakundi

    Ph.D. Student in Environment and Resources, admitted Autumn 2021

    BioFridah Nyakundi is an E-IPER PhD student whose broad research interests include productive water use, intensification of smallholder farms, land-use change and food security in Sub-Saharan Africa. Fridah graduated with a bachelor in economics and statistics (2014) and a masters of arts in economics (2016), both from the University of Nairobi. Her thesis focused on sustainably optimizing extractive forests in Kenya by calculating the optimal rotation period of three tree species that are the most harvested in Kenya.
    Before her PhD program, Fridah worked as a Senior Research Associate with the International Center For Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) within the Africa region.