Jim Franke

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Jim Franke graduated from the Milwaukee School of Engineering with a degree in mechanical engineering. After working in industry as an energy engineer for 5 years, he joined the PhD program in Geophysical Science at the University of Chicago in 2017. He is currently studying climate change impacts on human populations.

Research interests: climate change impacts and food security

Amir Jina

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Assistant Professor, Harris School of Public Policy, University of Chicago

 

Amir Jina is an Assistant Professor at University of Chicago’s Harris School of Public Policy, conducting interdisciplinary research on how economic and social development is shaped by the environment. He uses applied economic techniques, climate science, and remote sensing to understand the impacts of climate in both rich and poor countries, and has done fieldwork in India, Bangladesh, Kenya, and Uganda. Amir is a founding member of the Climate Impact Lab, an interdisciplinary collaboration estimating the Social Cost of Carbon with state-of-the-art empirical methods. Prior to University of Chicago, Amir was a visiting scholar at University of California, Berkeley where he worked the Risky Business initiative. Amir received his Ph.D. in Sustainable Development and M.A. in Climate and Society from Columbia University, B.A.s in Mathematics and Theoretical Physics from Trinity College, Dublin, and previously worked with the Red Cross/Red Crescent in South Asia and as a high school teacher in Japan.

Research Interests:

  • Environment and Environmental Change
  • Societal Development

KeJuan Smith

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KeJuan Smith, RDCEP Intern

My name is KeJuan Smith. I'm 16 and a computer geek. I do many volunteer projects and I love to write to poetry. I am also a bike mechanic at Blackstone bicycle shop, working with kids and teaching them how to fix bikes. I love to ride bikes downtown and on the lakefront trail.  Apart from RDCEP, I'm a sophomore at Tilden Career Community Academy High School.

Keira Johnson-Scott

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RDCEP Energy Engineer

Woodlawn High School Student

 

 

 

Keira Johnson is a upcoming Junior at University of Chicago Charter School Woodlawn Campus and is expected graduation 2018. Keira's favorite subject in school is Science and wants to study it and Engineering in college. Outside of school, Keira's hobbies are Performing Arts. She is very focus and creative of what she does and is willing to learn new things.