Research

Interests

Energy Policy; Energy Justice; Climate Change; Environmental Policy; Sustainability

Conference Presentations

Energy justice advocacy program: The administrative burden of applying for energy assistance programs, Spring 2022

Lawrence, United States

Grant: Sierra Club Kansas Chapter, $5,000
Principal Investigator: S. Mohsen Fatemi
Advisor: Ty Gorman, Sierra Club
Interns: Katia Rivera-Cobian, Sophia Pascente
Activities: Educating and engaging undergraduate students, at the University of Kansas, in energy justice scholarship and advocacy, conducting qualitative interviews

Dealing with Disruption: Investigating the Micro-level Underpinnings of City Response to the Climate Crisis, 2021-Present

Institute for Policy & Social Research (IPSR), University of Kansas, Lawrence, United States

Grant: National Science Foundation (NSF)
Principal Investigators: Dr. Rachel M. Krause, Dr. Gwen Arnold
Role: Graduate Research Assistant
Activities: Data collection, survey instrument development, survey modeling in Qualtrics, managing dissemination of surveys, building and analyzing statistical models, writing literature reviews and conference papers, presenting at conferences

Master's Capstone Project: Developing a Climate Action Plan for Illinois State Parks, the Rock Cut State Park, 2020

Department of Urban and Regional Planning, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign-Urbana, United States

Department of Sociology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, United States

Assistant to Professor Asef Bayat

Master's Thesis: Developing a Sustainability Rating System for School Buildings by Analytical Network Process (ANP) analysis (in Farsi), 2017

School of Architecture, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran