The Ostrom Workshop is pleased to honor the traditions of Lin and Vincent by bringing together experts in the field with those just beginning their careers. Workshoppers mentor Ostrom Fellows and Research Awardees along with providing financial support.
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 | Growing up on the southside of Indianapolis, Ethan Elversen spent his childhood exploring the few woodlots that remained in the suburban landscape, learning to identify native flora and developing an understanding of the rich natural heritage that Indiana harbors, of which only vestiges remain. As urban sprawl began to consume the southside, he watched as the natural areas he knew and loved were completely destroyed and paved over. This experience set him on his lifelong quest to conserve, protect and restore Indiana's natural heritage. In his free time Ethan is an avid hiker, native plant gardener and frequent Amtrak passenger. |
 | Max Fang holds a J.D. degree and is currently an S.J.D. candidate at Indiana University Maurer School of Law. Max also serves as Lead Researcher for Data and Cyber Programs at the IU Ostrom Workshop. Max's research focuses on global tech governance through the lenses of law, international economics, and geopolitics; from which the topics of interest include AI governance, cybersecurity, space technology, ESG, blockchain, semiconductor policy, and internet law. |
 | Thuy Ho is a PhD candidate in the Department of Geography at Indiana University Bloomington. She holds a master’s in international development studies and a master’s in environmental studies from Ohio University. She was also a Fulbright scholar from 2014-2016. Thuy Ho was involved in different agriculture sustainability projects with NGOs and the World Bank in her previous work. Thuy Ho’s interests are the geography of rural development, agrarian change, climate adaptation, and gender issues. She has professional experience in sustainable agricultural development and community-based development works. |
 | Stanislav Menzelevskyi is a film scholar, archivist, and co-founder of the Medusa publishing project. Stanislav headed the Research and Programming Department of the Oleksandr Dovzhenko National Center for over a decade. Co-author of Atomopolis. Assembling Utopia (2016) and Lviv-Intervision (2018) compilation films. Currently, he's pursuing a Ph.D. at the Media School at Indiana University, Bloomington, after spending time as a Fulbright Fellow at UC Berkeley (2018) and a Carnegie Fellow at Columbia University’s Harriman Institute (2013). |
 | Mahdi Taraghi is a third-year Ph.D. student in Environmental Science at the O’Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs, Indiana University Bloomington. He holds a Master’s degree in Water Resources Engineering and is passionate about the intersection of environmental policy, socio-environmental systems, and complex systems modeling. His research focuses on the dynamic interplay between human decision-making and environmental processes, using agent-based modeling to investigate complex interactions within socio-environmental systems. |
 | Adriana Abreu, Anthropology Adriana is an Amazonian environmental anthropologist focusing on resource management, traditional communities, conservation, gender equity, development, and socioenvironmental challenges in the Brazilian Amazon. Currently pursuing her Ph.D. in Anthropology, Adriana’s research focuses on the intersection of formal rules and social norms in the arapaima fisheries community-based management. |
