Antonia Marcheva

Toni Marcheva is a 2025 PERC graduate fellow and a Ph.D. Candidate at Cornell Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management studying water management and climate change adaptation policy. Her current research explores how farmers in California respond to the government’s forecasts about surface water availability. She became interested in water management growing up in Arizona and helping her dad deliver water for her family because they lacked public water access. Before starting her graduate studies, she attended the University of Arizona and studied PPEL (Philosophy, Politics, Economics, and Law) and mathematics. She enjoys hiking and reading classics.