Erin C. Lentz

Position	Research Support Specialist
Area of Interest	Market Functioning and Food Security
Hometown	Westerly, Rhode Island
Email Address	ecl4@cornell.edu
Campus Address	314 Warren Hall

Erin C. Lentz is a research support specialist at Cornell University. She holds a BA in Economics and an MS in Applied Economics and Management, both from Cornell. Her Masters thesis on food aid targeting was awarded �Outstanding Masters Thesis� by Northeastern Agricultural and Resource Economics Association. Erin received a Fulbright fellowship to Bangladesh to research the secondary effects of food aid in communities facing recurring disasters. She subsequently worked with CARE USA's Food Resource Coordination Team, where she helped develop and field-test the Market Information and Food Insecurity Response Analysis (MIFIRA) framework. Prior to attending graduate school, Erin was an economic consultant in Boston. Erin currently resides in Ithaca, NY, with her spouse, Jason Cons.