Grete Gansauer is an economic geographer and interdisciplinary public policy researcher focused on regional development, infrastructure, and the local state in peripheral regions and ‘left behind’ places. She is a US Department of Agriculture Predoctoral Fellow and PhD Candidate in Geography in the Resources and Communities Research Group at Montana State University. Her dissertation examines the extent to which Biden Administration place-based industrial policies address infrastructure and economic development needs in rural, natural-resource dependent regions of the Western USA. Grete is a co-organizer of EdgeNet, a RSA research network on peripheries and why they matter, and she co-edits the Just Rural Futures blog, a collective thought project to elevate diverse voices and research from rural areas around the globe.