Anjuli is originally from Costa Rica. She moved to the U.S.A. for high school. Her undergraduate degree is a BSE from the University of Michigan and she earned a MS in Technology and Policy and a Ph.D. from MIT in Civil and Environmental Engineering. In her PhD, she developed decision support tools to analyze the reallocation of limited land and water to simultaneously improve water security and increase agricultural output. Overall, her work has focused on water’s relationship to many sectors (e.g., agriculture, hydropower, sanitation, and disasters) both domestically and abroad. She has worked in the private sector as an environmental consulting engineer; in academia as a researcher studying the food-water-energy nexus; and in the non-profit sector doing geospatial data analysis and mapping for the public interest. Her hobbies include visualizing data, reading books, playing guitar, painting, and public speaking.