Sonali Shukla McDermid is Associate Professor of Environmental Studies, and Chair of the Environmental Studies Department. She is also the Climate Co-Lead for the Agricultural Model Intercomparison and Improvement Project (www.agmip.org), which conducts integrated assessments of climate change and food security in South Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa. Her main interest lies in evaluating how land management decisions influence regional environments, in correlation to climate, ecosystems, and agriculture and food security. She attempts to approach questions regarding land management from both socioeconomic and biophysical perspectives.