Elizabeth Chivers is a junior in Yale College majoring in economics and humanities. Hailing from a small homestead in Wakefield, Rhode Island, she grew up exposed to small-scale food system production and animal harvesting. She now studies human-environmental interactions and climate change economics and has grown especially interested in the social and economic drivers of harmful anthropogenic practices and climate change denial. In summer 2023, she worked on the Yale Farm and conducted ethnographic research on oyster farm aquaculture in Rhode Island. She spent the following summer in Stockholm, Sweden, performing economic research at the nexus of nonrenewable sectoral employment, climate change denial, and voting choices. Elizabeth is passionate about further studying various cultures and nations’ conceptions of and responses to climate change, with a particular interest in the role of the legal and economic frameworks in shaping those conceptions. She is also enthusiastic about the synthesis of quantitative and qualitative methods in the study of socioeconomic issues, such as labor market transitions in coal counties.

Her favorite things at Yale include running Y Pop-Up (Yale’s undergraduate cooking and fine-dining club), leading first-year orientation camping trips, and tutoring introductory macroeconomics. She loves going for long runs by the water, baking vegan birthday cakes for her friends, and working through her never-ending “to-be-read” list.