Cascade Tuholske is a postdoctoral research scientist at Columbia University's Earth Institute. With a Ph.D. in Geography from the University of California, Santa Barbara, and experience working as a Graduate Research Assistant at UC Santa Barbara's Geography Department, Tuholske's research and expertise centers around the intersection of climate change and urbanization. She is particularly focused on measuring and mapping urban population exposure to extreme heat across the world. At the FAO, Tuholske interned at the Agricultural Development Economics Division and Committee on World Food Security. Additionally, she's executed various projects, including measuring mangrove deforestation in Roatán, Honduras, assessing urban food security and system dynamics in large sub-Saharan African cities, tracking the 2015 Zika outbreak in Honduras, and designing a global-scale assessment of wastewater impacts on coastal ecosystems.

Tuholske is also a former Fulbright Scholar serving as an English Teaching Assistant, Associate Intern for the Office of Senator Max Baucus, Program Director at Learning Enterprises Organization, and a canvasser at Friends of Max Baucus and M+R Strategic Services. Tuholske's expertise lies in Geography, Climate Change, Urbanization, Machine Learning, and Ecosystems.