Katie Meehan, PhD

A human-environment geographer and water policy specialist by training, Dr. Katie Meehan is the principal investigator and director of the Knowledge Integration Project. Her research interests include urban political ecology, ethnography and mixed methods, science and technology studies, and the politics of environmental knowledge in Latin America. Dr. Meehan earned her BA from the University of Oregon and graduate degrees from the University of Oxford (UK) and the University of Arizona. A two-time Fulbright scholar, Dr. Meehan is currently Senior Lecturer in Human Geography at King’s College London. Prior to King’s, she was a professor in the Department of Geography at the University of Oregon from 2010 to 2019. Her research has appeared in notable journals such as Annals of the American Association of Geographers, Science, Geoforum, Environmental Science & Policy, and WIREs Climate Change, and covered by media outlets such as CityLab and Oregon’s KLCC. She lives and works in London.

Erica Borg collaborates on this project as a research associate and co-author. She is a full-time PhD student in Geography at King’s College London, where she completed her MA in International Political Economy in 2019. Her research focuses on the political ecology of ecosystem services and environmental governance. Specifically, her research examines processes of marketization and ‘green technologies’ aimed at biodiversity conservation, including approaches that use genomic science in the Brazilian Amazon.

Fiona De Los Ríos

Fiona De Los Ríos worked as the undergraduate research assistant for this project from 2016 to 2018. In 2019 she graduated from the University of Oregon with BA degrees in Geography, Political Science, and a minor in French. She also speaks Spanish. Originally from San José, California, Fiona is passionate about social justice issues. She lives and works in France.

Lourdes Ginart

Originally from Miami, Florida, Lourdes Ginart earned a MS in Geography from the University of Oregon in 2019. She worked as the graduate research assistant for this project and continues to collaborate as a consultant and co-author. Her interests include human geography, critical geopolitics, political science, science and technology studies, and Latin American studies. Lourdes is a talented cartographer and enjoys creating maps about a variety of topics, including environmental justice, sea level rise, climate change, electoral demography, and road trips across the United States.