Logan Torres is a second year candidate for a Master’s in Environmental Management at Yale University, with a concentration in Environmental Policy and Analysis. Logan works both as a research assistant in Dr. Dorceta Taylor’s JEDSI Lab understanding food access and food justice in urban contexts and as an Ecosystem Management and Conservation Learning Community Leader filling curricular and professional gaps and providing students with community experiences. In addition to his academic work, Logan serves as a Board of Trustees Fellow for The Nature Conservancy Connecticut Chapter and previously as an Economics and Policy Fellow at the Environmental Defense Fund. At The Forests Dialogue, Logan focuses on strategic planning and organizational structure and efforts. His training is multidisciplinary, spanning conservation science and practice, environmental justice, multi-level environmental policy implementation, environmental data science, plastics and waste, journalism, economics, management and leadership, and strategy and operations.