Graduate Student Researcher
Bio:
S. Lucille Blakeley is an Associate Research Scientist in the Columbia Climate School at Columbia University, studying how climate, weather shocks, gender, and time use impact food security. Sari has worked with a variety of non-governmental organizations, local governments, and research institutes to develop strategies to manage extreme weather events through analysis of worst rainfall years on record, evapotranspiration demand, assessment of vulnerable part of the cropping season, extreme heat’s impacts on vulnerable populations, and educational tutorials for risk management. Her main area of focus is West Africa, but she has worked in East Africa, southern Africa, south Asia, the Caribbean, South America, and the United States. She graduated from Michigan State University in 2010 with a B.S. in International Studies, Economics, and French, earned a master’s degree in Climate and Society in 2012 from Columbia University, and has a PhD in Geography from the University of California, Santa Barbara (2019). Sari worked as a post-doc at the University of California, Santa Barbara on a project funded by USAID’s Feed the Future Peanut Innovation Lab before joining Columbia University.