Danae Hernandez-Cortes

Danae Hernandez-Cortes is a PERC 2024 Lone Mountain Fellow as well as an Assistant Professor at the School of Sustainability and the School for the Future of Innovation in Society in Arizona State University and a Research Affiliate at emLab in the University of California, Santa Barbara. Her research studies the distributional consequences of environmental policy and environmental justice. Her work uses applied causal inference methods with remote sensing techniques and atmospheric transport models to analyze the environmental justice consequences of environmental policy. Before joining ASU, she obtained her Ph.D. in Economics with an emphasis on environmental science at the University of California, Santa Barbara.