Cassandra is a postdoctoral researcher in the Hoffmann Centre for Global Sustainability at the Geneva Graduate Institute. She is a microeconomist working in the intersection of environmental and development economics. Cassandra received her PhD in economics from Harvard University in 2025 and holds an undergraduate degree in applied mathematics and economics from Brown University. Cassandra's work focuses on South Africa, where she studies the causes and consequences of unreliable electricity supply as well as water provision and drought policy, and on the United States, where she studies policies encouraging the adoption of electric vehicles.