Helen Wilson Burns

Helen L. Wilson Burns is doctoral student in the Department of Environmental Studies and a graduate affiliate of the CU Population Center at the University of Colorado Boulder. She researches environmental demography, migration, and development through an interdisciplinary lens using quantitative and mixed methods. Helen contributes expertise in research design and analysis to multidisciplinary, multi-university collaborations investigating population and environmental change in Bangladesh, climate migration in Mexico, and climate shocks and elderly health in the rural United States. Originally from the mountains of Tennessee, Helen holds a BA in International Affairs from the George Washington University and a MS in Environmental Studies from CU.