Congratulations Megan Carney, Director of CRFS

Professor Carney was named one of 20 women to participate in the Tucson Public Voices Fellowship for the year 2018-19 as part of the national OpEd Project. A partnership between The University of Arizona, the Women's Foundation of Southern Arizona and The OpEd Project, this intense year-long fellowship provides a unique professional and leadership development opportunity. First piloted at Yale, the goal is to increase the influence of women and minority thought leaders, changing who narrates our world. During her year as a fellow, Professor Carney will engage with media and policy debates surrounding food systems (and challenges facing the Sonora-Arizona borderlands region in particular), immigration and mental health, migrant solidarity movements, food insecurity (and its links to psychosocial wellbeing, structural violence, climate change, migration, gender, and social inequality), immigration policy, and health policy. She is particularly looking forward to further developing and refining her competencies as a public and community-engaged scholar. During the course of the fellowship, she will seek opportunities to share and translate her scholarship and expertise with diverse publics by regularly writing op-eds, conducting outreach and advocacy with political think-tanks and the offices of elected officials, and collaborating with other Fellows to identify additional opportunities to disseminate their collective knowledge in written and spoken form.