Libby is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Applied Economics at the University of Minnesota. Her research interests include ecosystem service valuation, biodiversity conservation, and environmental justice. Her work focuses on applying ecosystem service and computable general equilibrium tools to spatial data to determine the distribution of ecosystem services in the past and into project estimates into the future. Libby earned her B.S. in Economics and Mathematics from St. Catherine University in December 2019. Prior to graduate school, she served as the first program coordinator for the Minnesota Center for Diversity in Economics