Ph.D. Candidate, RAND School of Public Policy; Assistant Policy Researcher, RAND
Peggy Wilcox is a Ph.D. candidate at the RAND School of Public Policy and an assistant policy researcher at RAND. She holds an M.P.A. with a local government concentration and a B.A. in anthropology, both from the University of Alaska as well as an M.Phil. from the RAND School of Public Policy. Her research interests are largely focused on Arctic policy and the socioeconomic, infrastructure, and governance adaptations required by human systems to successfully respond to climate change in the North.
Prior to joining RAND, she worked as a research assistant at the University of Alaska Southeast's Alaska Coastal Rainforest Center examining community resilience and adaptive governance related to COVID-19 in Juneau, Alaska, and urban Arctic community planning and adaption related to increased natural hazards linked to climate change. She has worked extensively with the Alaska State Legislature as a chief of staff and finance aide/analyst for the House and Senate democratic caucuses, and later as the director of political operations for the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) Alaska affiliate.
M. Phil. in policy analysis, RAND School of Public Policy; M.P.A. in government and public administration, University of Alaska Southeast; B.A. in anthropology, University of Alaska Anchorage
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