Megan earned a Ph.D. from McGill University in plant science and ethnoecology with the Centre for Indigenous Peoples’ Nutrition and Environment and a Master of Science in Environmental Studies from the University of Victoria in ethnobotany under the mentorship of Dr. Nancy Turner. As a post-doc at University of California Berkeley Megan worked as part of the Karuk Tribe UC Berkeley Collaborative. Her research interests include food sovereignty and traditional foods, ecocultural restoration of biocultural places and plants, environmental stewardship and relational health and wellbeing, and environmental change and Indigenous resilience. Megan is an interdisciplinary researcher who truly works in the nexus between natural and social sciences. She works closely as a partner and ally with rural and urban Indigenous communities in the United States, Canada, and East Africa. Her approach is shaped by community based participatory research methods, Indigenous research methodologies, and ethics related to care, relationship, and love.

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Megan is an assistant professor of environmental science and Indigenous studies in the Department of Environmental Sciences at Emory University. She works as part of the Native American and Indigenous Studies Initiative at Emory.