Jill Capotosto

MEM & MA ’21 Yale School of the Environment and the Yale Jackson Institute for Global Affairs
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Jill is a joint-degree master’s student in her final year at the Yale School of the Environment and the Yale Jackson Institute for Global Affairs. She focuses on environmental justice, particularly in the international development and humantiarian aid sectors. At Yale, she works in the lab of Dr. Dorceta Taylor supporting research on access to ethnic food retailers in Connecticut cities. Before graduate school, Jill served as a Princeton in Asia fellow in the Viet Nam office of TRAFFIC, an international nonprofit combatting wildlife trafficking. She has also worked for the Institute for Sustainable Communities, a Vermont-based nonprofit focused on building climate resilience in U.S. cities.