Corey Samuels

Corey Samuels grew up between Duluth, Minnesota, and Berlin, Germany. She earned a PhD in ecology and evolutionary biology and has focused her career on using data and models to understand complex systems, leading scientific software programs across many disciplines and industries. The Land Institute is where Corey first found her footing as a scientist and data‑driven thinker (complex systems research plots on the campus were the subject of her dissertation), and it has remained a central influence in her life and career ever since. Corey brings institutional memory from decades of involvement with The Land Institute and its people, as well as experience in business consulting and data science, to support thoughtful, strategic decision-making.

My most perennial trait is exploration—of data, ideas, and the world itself—as I’m constantly digging into information for friends like a roaming librarian and will happily hop on a plane to anywhere new at a moment’s notice.

Read about Corey on her LinkedIn profile.

1992 Intern, 1998-99 Research fellow during the program’s inaugural first 2 years.