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Natalie J. Kane is a Research Fellow at the Global Institute for Sustainable Prosperity and a Research Assistant at the University of Missouri-Kansas City Center for Economic Information (UMKC CEI). She received her MA from the UMKC Department of Economics, and is currently a PhD student of Economics and the Geosciences. As a Graduate Teaching Assistant, Natalie participated in the Binzagr Institute’s research on the non-pecuniary costs of unemployment. Since 2015, she has worked for CEI performing GIS and data analysis of individual-level asthma encounters, developing environmental exposure estimates for use in predictive models of housing and health, and contributing to community-based GIS projects, including a vacant housing survey and an economic report for the Urban Neighborhood Initiative. Natalie’s doctoral dissertation research investigates the disparity in childhood asthma in Kansas City using interdisciplinary methods to identify the most relevant combination of risk factors associated with the disparity, and to develop sustainable solutions.