Currently a joint degree student between the Yale School of Management and the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies, Claire is focusing her studies on sustainable business in the food and agriculture sector. She spent her first summer internship developing strategies for the sustainability team at Happy Family Brands, an organic baby food company, and she spent her second summer developing marketing and sustainability initiatives for Hugo & Hoby, a furniture start-up founded by two Yale SOM alums.

Prior to Yale, Claire worked as a farm-to-school coordinator on Martha's Vineyard, empowering students to make healthy eating choices and grow food themselves, so she is very familiar with Woods Hole! Later, she moved on to teach at a project-based school in the Bay Area for two years. She graduated Cum Laude from Williams College in 2012, with a major in English, and a concentration in Environmental Studies. At Yale, Claire founded and is managing the Regenerative Agriculture Initiative at the Center for Business and the Environment, and is a Board Fellow at the New Haven Land Trust. She loves camping, dancing, reading contemporary fiction, and gardening.