Dr. Catherine Keske is an Assistant Professor of Agricultural and Resource Economics at Colorado State University. She is also Adjunct Faculty at the Denver University Law School, where she teaches LAWS 4452, Natural Resource and Environmental Economics. She also teaches LAWS 4701 Public Utility Regulation. Dr. Keske holds several national grants for research on energy, conservation easements, and mountain ecosystems. She is also the PI of an African project to establish micro-lending for women in the West African nation of Mali.