Christa Brelsford

Christa is a Ph.D. Candidate at Arizona State Universities new School of Sustainability. SOS is an experiment in interdisciplinary graduate education, seeking to bring together multiple disciplines in order to create practical solutions to the worlds most pressing environmental, economic, and social problems. Christa's dissertation research focuses on how water allocation institutions change in response to increasing scarcity. She's using the desert southwest as a case study.

She recently finished the Climate and Society masters degree at Columbia University, and has a BS in civil engineering, also from Columbia.

Christa lost her right leg in the Haiti earthquake in January 2010 but still continues to run, bike, and rock climb.