Jake Kunzler
Janet Quinney Lawson Institute for Land, Water & Air
Research Assistant
Biography
Jake Kunzler is a Research Assistant at the Janet Quinney Lawson Institute for Land, Water, and Air at Utah State University. Jake has also completed a policy fellowship at ClearPath in Washington, D.C., where his work spanned electricity transmission, grid reliability, nuclear energy, and critical minerals. He also completed a fellowship through The Fund for American Studies, which included coursework in economics and political economy at George Mason University.
Jake received dual bachelor's degrees from Utah State University in Economics and Political Science. His work at the institute focuses on natural disaster resilience, geospatial modeling, and the economics of natural resource policy. A Logan native now based in D.C., Jake spends his free time hiking Shenandoah and researching family history, traveling back home whenever possible to ski Beaver Mountain and run the Snake River.