Assistant Researcher (she/her)
Sagal Alisalad is an Assistant Researcher at the Applied Economics Clinic. Prior to joining the Clinic full-time, she worked part-time as a Research Assistant for two years. She graduated from Tufts University in 2019 with a Bachelor of Arts in International Relations and Environmental studies with a minor in Colonialism Studies. As a Gill Fellow at Tufts, Ms. Alisalad completed a research project entitled “Mapping the Environmental Impact of Industrial Activities in Africa: Reviewing Patterns of Exploitation and Ecosystem Degradation”.
Ms. Alisalad has over five years of experience conducting independent research through her coursework, her work as a Gill Fellow at the Tufts’ Center for the Study of Race Democracy, and her prior role as a research assistant at the Applied Economics Clinic. Ms. Alisalad is proficient in data collection/organization, R, Stata, and GIS. While her main passion in research is environmental justice, Ms. Alisalad’s other research interests include climate policy, political economy, and the impact of colonial legacies in Africa.