Experts & Staff

Loretta is the Project Coordinator for WRI’s Forest Legality Alliance, which aims to reduce illegal logging by helping to improve supply chain capacity to source legal wood. She is also a Research Assistant for the Measurement and Performance Tracking (MAPT) project, focusing on forest carbon monitoring capacity in developing countries.

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Prior to joining WRI, Loretta worked on a project with the Coalition for Rainforest Nations, developing guidelines for the measurement, reporting, and verification (MRV) of REDD+ environmental and social safeguards. She also completed a fellowship with the Kahn Liberal Arts Institute, looking at the methods used to develop the value of a statistical life and its use in environmental cost-benefit analyses. She also 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 program for Belizean youth.

Loretta graduated from Columbia University with a Master of Public Administration in environmental science and policy and from Smith College with a Bachelor degree in government.