Lara Briggs
Bio
Lara Briggs is a PhD student in the Department of Political Science. Her research is in comparative politics and international political economy, focusing specifically on energy and the environment. She primarily is interested in the political causes and consequences of the clean energy transition in the European Union. Beyond the political science department, she works as a social data scientist with the experiments team at the Yale Program on Climate Change Communication, and she is a graduate student affiliate with the European Studies Council.
Prior to Yale, Lara earned a B.A. from Washington University in St. Louis in Political Science (comparative politics & quantitative methods concentrations) and Environmental Analysis. While a student at Washington University, she worked for several years as an associate for the WashU Climate Change Program (now under the Center for the Environment) and interned in the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Office of Enforcement and Compliance Assurance.
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Education
- B.A., Political Science and Environmental Analysis (Summa Cum Laude), Washington University in St. Louis, 2024