Neal Wilson is a Research Fellow at the Global Institute for Sustainable Prosperity, and a Ph.D. Candidate in Economics at the University of Missouri Kansas City. Since 2014 he has been a research consultant for the Center for Economic Information where he focuses on the application of Geographic Information Systems towards a better understanding of health disparities. Neal’s research focuses on the relationship between childhood lead poisoning and the lived environment, environmental policy as a form of social policy, and modeling urban environmental inequality. Prior to perusing his Ph.D. Neal co-founded the Museum of Bottled Water and spent a decade as a craft baker.