Miriam Gold is a pre-doctoral fellow at EPIC working with Harris School of Public Policy Assistant Professor Eyal Frank. She supports projects studying the impact of locust plagues on child development in Africa and Asia and the effectiveness of fishery management laws in the United States. Originally from Michigan, Miriam received her BA in quantitative economics with a minor in environmental studies at St. Olaf College in Minnesota. Since then, she has authored work on methods of improving conservation program cost estimates using machine learning and big data.