Camp PERC Speakers
Sara Sutherland
Camp PERC Director, Fellowship Director, PERC Senior Research Fellow
Sara is a director of the PERC fellowship program, a PERC senior research fellow, and a lecturer in agricultural and resource economics at the University of California Davis. She received her Ph.D. in environmental science and management from the University of California, Santa Barabara. Her research focuses on the political economy of fisheries, water management, and public lands.
Katherine Wright
Camp PERC Director, PERC Senior Researcher
Katherine is a PERC senior researcher specializing in water policy. She received her Ph.D. in sustainability from Arizona State University. Her current work includes the exploration of solutions to western water scarcity.
Brian Yablonski
PERC Chief Executive Officer
Brian currently serves on the board of the Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Partnership, and as a professional member of the Boone and Crockett Club, the nation’s oldest wildlife conservation organization. Prior to joining PERC, he was chairman of the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission.
Shawn Regan
PERC Vice President of Research
Shawn is the vice president of research at PERC and executive editor of PERC Reports magazine. His writing has appeared in the Wall Street Journal, Outside, National Review, and Grist, and his research has been published in journals such as Science and Natural Resources Journal. He is also a former backcountry ranger for the National Park Service.
Hannah Downey
PERC Policy Director
Hannah leads PERC’s policy strategy and government affairs efforts to implement key policy reforms based on PERC’s groundbreaking research. She has applied her passion for the outdoors to advance lasting conservation wins.
Travis Brammer
PERC Director of Conservation
Travis joined PERC as its first-ever director of conservation, overseeing PERC’s Conservation Innovation Lab and all field projects. Raised as a seventh-generation family cattle rancher in Colorado with professional expertise in western conservation issues, Travis is passionate about the intersection of conservation and agriculture.
Eric Edwards
PERC Senior Research Fellow, Fellowship Director
Eric is a PERC senior research fellow, director of the PERC graduate fellowship program, and an assistant professor in agricultural and resource economics at the University of California, Davis. His research Examines environmental and natural resource management institutions across a variety of resources including ground and surface water, oil and gas, land, and fisheries.
Bryan Leonard
PERC Senior Fellow, Fellowship Director
Bryan Leonard is a PERC senior fellow, director of PERC’s fellowship program, and an associate professor of environmental and natural resource economics in the School of Sustainability and a faculty affiliate in the Economics Department and the Center for Behavior, Institutions, and the Environment at Arizona State University. His research focuses on the design of institutions to resolve collective action problems associated with natural resource and environmental management.
Nicole Karwowski
Montana State University Assistant Professor
Nicole is an assistant professor at Montana State University in the Department of Agricultural and Environmental Economics. She earned a Ph.D. in agricultural and applied economics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her research focuses on applied microeconomics as well as environmental, natural resource, and agricultural economics.
Pete Geddes
American Prairie Vice President and Chief External Relations Officer
Pete is the vice president and chief external relations officer for American Prairie, a non-profit creating one of the largest nature reserves in the United States.
Andie Creel
Yale University
Andie is a 2024 PERC graduate fellow and a Ph.D. student at the Yale School of the Environment studying natural resource economics and natural capital accounting. Her fellowship project is focused on the natural capital accounting of recreation in urban green space.