Dr. Laura Villalobos from Economics and Environmental Studies was invited to be the Rising Star Keynote at The Northeastern Agricultural and Resource Economics Association (NAREA) 2025 Conference in Burlington on June 8-10. Laura presented the research on “Quantifying externalities in the Tropical Americas”. The Rising Star Keynote is a platform to showcase work of a promising young scholar with a research agenda that overlaps substantially with the interest of NAREA membership.