Anthony Asuega is a joint-degree candidate at the Jackson School of Global Affairs and the School of Management, focusing on economic development for poor and working-class communities and exploring how a just energy transition can benefit both people and planet.

Anthony’s experience includes internships at AT&T, where he created a lifecycle assessment model to advance a circular economy, and at the Coral Reef Advisory Group in American Samoa, where he crafted strategies and public policy to protect coral reefs. His projects at Yale include designing a career accelerator fund for the state of Connecticut, creating financial models for a Kenyan recycling company and a New Haven childcare center, and developing a net-positive biodiversity plan for a leading U.S. renewable energy company. As director of the Yale Kimball Smith Series, he fosters the intersection of science, technology, and ethics by promoting dialogue and collaboration at the forefront of global challenges.

Before Yale, Anthony served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Liberia, teaching math and science, leading the construction of classrooms, and facilitating a boys and girls club. At the Sustainability Research Laboratory, he contributed to pioneering research on the economic feasibility of small modular nuclear reactors (SMRs), developing the first open-source, engineering-based financial model comparing low-carbon SMRs to natural gas plants.

A first-generation college graduate from San Francisco's public housing projects, Anthony earned a B.S. in applied physics, cum laude, from California State University, Sacramento, with minors in mathematics and philosophy.