Samuel Tabory
Global Research Leader
Cambridge, United States
Languages: English, Spanish
“CoRe’s commitment to bridging research and practice is built on a foundation of respect for complexity and context. It’s a privilege to work with committed colleagues and partners across the world to collectively leverage diversity of expertise, experience, and perspective. I learn something new every day.”
Sam leads research efforts across CoRe's organizational profile, working to build compelling and rigorous bases of policy evidence around nonlinear systems change for improved Commons governance across scales. He contributes to methodological designs for cross-context research efforts as well as complex systems change evaluations, with implications for CoRe's strategic program design. Trained as a regional planner, Sam is an environmental governance specialist who cares deeply about the daily politics and negotiation of pursuing environmental governance innovation across urban-to-rural spectrums. His professional interests lie at the intersection of leveraging research to advance grounded action, multi-level partnerships, policy dialogue, and coalition building for just and equitable climate and resource transitions globally. With experience in both community-level development partnerships and high-level policy engagement, working across scales and with a broad range of stakeholders has been central to his professional practice and research. Prior to joining CoRe, Sam worked as a governance advisor to a landscape-scale restoration and livelihood initiative in central Mexico (with funding from UK PACT Mexico), as a research manager for science-policy engagement with a Sustainability Research Network supported by the US National Science Foundation, and as a research associate at the Chicago Council on Global Affairs. Additionally, he has held NGO project management roles in Latin America. Professionally, he has contributed to reports commissioned by UN Environment, the World Bank, and NATO. His scholarly work has been published in Global Environmental Change, Urban Transformations, and the Journal of Industrial Ecology. Sam holds a BA in Latin American Studies from Tulane University, as well as an MA in Latin American Studies and an MS in Community and Regional Planning, both from the University of Texas at Austin. He is an 'all but dissertation' candidate completing a PhD in Urban and Regional Planning at Harvard University.