About
Moksha Menghaney is a Dual Master's Degree Candidate at the School of Environment & Sustainability (SEAS) and the Ford School of Public Policy. She hopes to combine her current learnings with her quantitative background to help local and state governments lead climate action and build programs that foster resilient and just communities. In 2022, she worked as a Dow Sustainability Fellow at the Graham Sustainability Institute, assisting the Energy Equity Researchers' Collaborative in designing its internal frameworks and a network mapping database to enable knowledge exchange and facilitate coordination among energy equity and justice organizations. She has also worked as a research assistant with Dr. Sarah Mills studying the impact of rural zoning regimes on utility-scale solar development. She led the process development for sourcing and analyzing local zoning ordinances across six states.
Before joining UofM, she worked with the University of Chicago's Healthy Regions and Policy Lab, where she tried to identify the impact of the city's diesel bus pollution on neighborhood asthma and COPD rates. She also worked with the Lab's U.S. Covid Atlas as a Community Mapping Analyst, sourcing stories from members of underrepresented communities to share their experience with Covid on the lab's blog. Before that, Moksha received an M.S. in Financial Engineering from Columbia University and has over six years of experience as a quantitative analyst in financial markets. In her last role at Aon, she was the Portfolio Manager for the firm's Outsourced CIO real estate and target-date fund assets and as an Assistant PM for equity assets. Outside work, she loves cooking, playing board games, dancing, and taking long walks.
