Christine Pu is a PhD candidate in Environmental Engineering at Stanford University. She holds a MS in Environmental Engineering from Stanford University and a BEng in Chemical Engineering from McGill University, where she studied as a Loran Scholar and Greville Smith Scholar. At Stanford, Pu's research combines theory and methods from environmental engineering, sociology, and development economics to elucidate the causal relationships that link extreme poverty, engineered infrastructure, and climate change in sub-Saharan Africa. Pu explores how road and irrigation infrastructure help households escape poverty and build resilience against increasing temperature and precipitation variability. She combines nuanced insights about the poverty experience with regional-scale modeling to produce compelling evidence for decision-makers. Previously, Pu worked closely with The World Bank on a poverty diagnostic study of the WASH sector in Tajikistan and with Engineers Without Borders Canada on extracting meaningful learnings from organization failures.