Hi, I’m Megan!
I’m an community developer, educator, and artist with a passion for equitable, justice-oriented work in all spheres.
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About Me
I’m a community developer, analog collage artist, and educator living in Sacramento, California. My work is deeply rooted in principals of collaboration, reciprocity, and justice. I am dedicated to supporting and representing the inter-connectivity of humans to one another and the “natural,” or more-than-human world.
Research
Detailed below are major research efforts I’ve undertaken as a university student and intern for Valley Vision.
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Community Development Master’s Thesis
The culmination of my graduate academic experience as part of the Community Development Graduate Group at the University of California, Davis (UC Davis) was my thesis entitled “EJLP: A Case Study of Relationship Building in a Community-University Partnership Program.” This research was conducted in partnership with the Feminist Research Institute (FRI) at UC Davis, centering…
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STAKEHOLDER MAPPING BEST PRACTICES
Throughout the summer of 2023, I worked as a graduate student intern with Valley Vision (VV) in Sacramento. I was a part of their Community Economic Resilience Fund (CERF, now known as California Jobs First) team. VV is the regional convenor for the Capital Region, which includes the eight counties of Colusa, El Dorado, Nevada, Placer, Sacramento, Sutter, Yolo,…
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ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE & ARTISTIC EXPRESSION IN CALIFORNIA’S SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY
My core passion lies at the intersection of the arts and social justice. During my first year of my graduate studies, I was privileged to take a course on critical environmental justice of the Central Valley taught by Jonathan London. The culmination of my work in this class was a book proposal and presentation entitled…
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HEALING GROUNDS
Healing Grounds is a neighborhood design project co-created in collaboration with a team of graduate students through our course – Urban Planning and Design – at UC Davis. This site is located in what is currently PG&E property in East Davis, at the intersection of L St and 5th St. This proposed project emphasizes the…
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YOUR MONEY OR YOUR LIFE: FINANCIAL LITERACY & CONSUMER ADVOCACY COURSE PROPOSAL
Through my involvement in Beyond the Classroom, a civic engagement and leadership program at the University of Maryland, College Park, I worked with a capstone team to create a proposal for a financial literacy and consumer advocacy course for students. I led this research through survey design and implementation, and the drafting of the proposed…
Portfolio
I’m an analog collage artist + ceramicist. My artistic process is heavily influenced by my values as an intersectional ecofeminist.
I work to create seamless compositions from found and discarded objects in which femme subjects are re-situated away from the male gaze and placed into surreal landscapes of beauty, pleasure, and joy.
Community Work
Learn more about my work with communities from Maryland to California
Across the roles I’ve taken on, from youth political leader to board member to volunteer & more, I’ve dedicated myself to the needs and wants of my communities. To do this work, and to do it right, we must center & co-power communities that are the most structurally and systematically oppressed. Nobody’s free until we are all free.
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