Jack Markowitz is a candidate for the MESc degree at the Yale School of the Environment with a particular interest in how forms of knowledge from Latin America and the Global South can be incorporated into environmental policy and governance. He intends to pursue climate change and environmental policy solutions through mixed-methods research involving ecological economics, degrowth theory, human value systems, and natural and earth systems. Previous research experience related to Latin America includes geographic impacts on Latin American literature, racial identity in Mexico as it relates to Frida Kahlo's artwork, indigenous environmental protest in Chile, and the impacts of Costa Rican Payments for Ecosystem Services (PES) programs on landscape multifunctionality.
