Megan Williams is a Graduate Student Researcher at the Feminist Research Institute. She is in her second year of the Community Development Graduate program at UC Davis. Megan currently works with Jonathan London’s Environmental Justice Lab. Her research interests include environmental justice, the built environment, and artistic expression as protest.

Megan holds a B.S in Environmental Science and Policy with a minor in Spanish Language and Culture from the University of Maryland, College Park. Before moving to Davis, she worked as a constituent services liaison for a local government in Maryland, as president of a local youth political organization, and as an environmental/ climate justice advocate in Maryland.

Mayra Sánchez Barba completed her PhD in Geography with a DE in Feminist Theory and Research Methods. Her scholarship has focused on the politics of knowledge in the making of toxic social and environmental disparities, and the ethics of everyday care work. This work draws from feminist theory, critical race theory, geographies of environmental justice, critical disability studies, and environmental humanities. Furthermore, her work employed principles of feminist and critical pedagogy and public scholarship. More recently, she is interested in learning how we collectively cope with loss and is inspired by indigenous knowledge and ecological science that center our interconnectedness to seek ways of living that nourish our ecologies and cultivate more livable worlds.

In her new role at the Feminist Research Institute, Mayra is committed to developing more just and transformative research and policy. To do this, she aims to work collaboratively with researchers and community members to center marginalized standpoints and unsettle dominant stories.

Sarah Rebolloso McCullough, Ph.D. creates meaningful and respectful dialogue across boundaries that typically divide—between universities and communities, activists and researchers, scientists and humanists, workers and policymakers. An expert in research culture and a seasoned connector, McCullough’s work is focused on promoting equity-based solutions to social problems.

As associate director of the Feminist Research Institute, McCullough is dedicated to creating more equitable systems of knowledge production. She wants to see research culture change to be more humanizing and sustainable–for researchers, those we study with, and the environment. She seeks to create a world where we can bring our full selves to the workplace and produce more accurate and impactful knowledge because of it.