Experts & Staff

Loretta is the Project Coordinator for WRI’s Forest Legality project, which aims to reduce illegal logging by improving supply chain capacity to source legal wood. She is also a Research Assistant to PEP’s Forest Landscape Objective, focusing on forest carbon monitoring capacity in developing countries.

Prior to joining WRI, Loretta received an MPA in Environmental Science and Policy from Columbia University, where she worked on a project with the Coalition for Rainforest Nations, looking at the measurement, reporting, and verification of REDD+ environmental and social safeguards included in the Cancun Agreement. Prior to that, she interned for the Endangered Species Division of NOAA’s Office of Protected Resources, and traveled to San Pedro, Belize to host a coral reef conservation summer camp for Belizean children. Loretta also holds a BA in Government from Smith College.