SPENCER PHILLIPS PH.D.
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Spencer is a natural resource economist who founded Key-Log Economics to help people, communities, and institutions understand and attain the benefits of improved land stewardship. He previously did this work at the White House Council on Environmental Quality and as Vice President for Ecology and Economics Research at The Wilderness Society. Spencer’s current research focuses on ecosystem service values—especially as affected by climate change, public land and resource management, and water quality regulation—and on the relationships between economic development and environmental quality. His B.A. in economics is from the University of Virginia, and his M.S. and PhD in Agricultural and Applied Economics are from Virginia Tech.
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Carolyn Alkire, Ph.D.
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Carolyn is a natural resource economist with extensive experience analyzing federal agency budgets and the application of economic principles to federal, state and local government land and resource management. She focuses on economic and policy issues associated with the management of lands and resources — often regarding conflicts over resource uses and/or development. Her research has addressed market and nonmarket values of natural resources, tradeoffs associated with commodity uses vs. conservation, direct and indirect employment and income effects associated with land and/or resource uses, and federal funding for resource management and conservation. Carolyn earned a B.A. in economics from the University of Richmond, M.S. in economics from North Carolina State University and Ph.D. in public policy from George Washington University.
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sonia wang
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Sonia completed her undergraduate degree at the University of Virginia, where she double majored in Environmental Sciences (College of Arts & Sciences) and Public Policy and Leadership (Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy). Prior to joining Key-Log’s staff, Sonia was selected to be a part of UVA's highly selective Conservation Scholars Program, a joint effort between UVA and the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation. Through the program, she worked with the Foundation's Marine Team on transitioning their conservation strategies in the Caribbean from a topic specific approach to a broader, regional effort. Sonia has also worked for The Shenandoah Watershed Study, the longest-running record of stream water composition and discharge data in the U.S. National Park System and interned at The Wilderness Society as a renewable energy government affairs intern.
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Anna Perry
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Anna is a recent graduate of the University of Virginia, earning a B.A. in Economics/Public Policy and a minor in Global Sustainability. She has interned for the UVA Office for Sustainability (for whom Key-Log Economics has developed a sustainability dashboard) and continued research on the economic costs associated with nitrogen emissions from UVA’s purchased utilities. She has also been a researcher for the Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service, most recently developing a report on the feasibility of implementing an internal carbon charge at UVA.
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