Andrew Perlstein

Andrew is a graduate student in Stanford's Interdisciplinary Program in Environment and Resources. Prior to Stanford, he did a masters degree in Urban and Regional Planning at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he focused on environment and development issues in China. He was supported by a Foreign Language Area Studies Fellowship to study Mandarin Chinese, an ongoing endeavor he started in college. Andrew has made several trips to mainland China, most recently to learn about conservation efforts in Yunnan Province. Before graduate school he worked in Yunnan, assisting a team of consultants to create a tourism development plan for the provincial government. He also spent some time in New York City (where is from originally) fundraising for an elementary school, volunteer teaching math for a non-profit adult education organization, and enjoying the reading room of the New York Public Library. Andrew's undergraduate degree is in Earth Sciences and Asian Studies from Dartmouth College.