Meghan Mordy

Meghan Mordy is a research associate at the Natural Hazards Center, University of Colorado Boulder, and co-administrator of the Center’s Federally-Funded Research Award Programs. Since joining the Center in 2021, Meghan has supported a range of activities, including the annual Natural Hazards Workshop and research sponsored by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the United States Geological Survey. Her current research interests include children and other vulnerable populations in disaster, climate migration, the ethical conduct of research, climate change education, and school-based disaster risk reduction.

Meghan received her Ph.D. in sociology from Colorado State University and has a master’s in public administration from the University of Washington. For her dissertation, she completed ethnographic fieldwork and qualitative interviews with children and youth struggling to stay in school in El Salvador. She has expertise in qualitative methods, international development, the sociology of children and education, population and environment, and community-based research.