EDUCATION
PhD Student, School of the Environment and Department of Anthropology, Yale University
MESc, School of the Environment, Yale University
BA, Philosophy, Gettysburg College
BIO
Evan Singer is a fourth-year combined doctoral degree student at the School of the Environment and Department of Anthropology at Yale University. His research explores the relationship between mental illness, poverty, and climate change by studying the practice of community psychiatry in the natural and built environment of New Haven, Connecticut. He has worked at the intersection of the environment, public health, and culture at the Yale Environmental Leadership Training Initiative, the Center for International Forestry Research (Vietnam), the Peace Corps (Cameroon), the Sierra Club of Pennsylvania, Project Gaia, and Indiana University Bloomington.
Keywords: Climate Change; Mental Illness; Community Psychiatry; Disability