Rachel M. Young is an Assistant Professor at the Humphrey School of Public Affairs at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. She joined the University of Minnesota after serving as a Ciriacy-Wantrup Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics at the University of California, Berkeley, and a Visiting Postdoctoral Scholar at the Global Policy Lab at Stanford University.
She received her PhD in Science Technology and Environmental Policy from the School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University. During her doctoral training, she was an Associate Doctoral Fellow at the Global Policy Lab at the Goldman School of Public Policy at the University of California, Berkeley, and a Research Volunteer at the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development’s Office of Policy Development and Research.
From Jan. 2022 - May 2022, Rachel worked at the White House Council on Environmental Quality, where she advised the White House on issues related to Federal Emergency Management Agency's flood mitigation and insurance programs. She helped create guidance for the Federal Flood Risk Management Standard (Executive Order 13690) and the climate resilience requirements for the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act spending (Executive Order 14052).
Before starting at Princeton, Rachel was a full-time research assistant for Prof. Jesse Rothstein (Economics and Public Policy, UC Berkeley) at the Institute for Research on Labor and Employment. She began her research career as a policy analyst for the American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy, in Washington D.C. Rachel holds an MPP from the Goldman School of Public Policy, UC Berkeley and a B.A. in Environmental Studies from Lewis & Clark College.
PhD Advisor: Michael Oppenheimer
PhD Committee Members: Tatyana Deryugina, Solomon Hsiang, Gabe Vecchi, Owen Zidar