Meghan Klasic

Meghan Klasic
Adjunct Faculty
she/her/hers
klasi004@umn.edu
209D Green Hall

1530 Cleveland Ave N.
St. Paul, MN 55108
United States

Personal Website
Twitter @rogue_phd
Instagram @larkingourwaythroughlife
Education
  • M.S. Environmental Planning and Management, Johns Hopkins University
  • B.S. Environmental Science, Focus: Water Quality, Dickinson College
External Affiliations

Areas of Interest

Environmental governance, politics, policy, and decision-making; social-ecological systems; urban sustainability; water resources; climate change; women and gender in the Arab world

Biography

Klasic is a Geography PhD Candidate at the University of California, Davis. She is also pursuing a designated emphasis in Computational Social Science. Klasic is a Professors for the Future Fellow and a National Socio-Environmental Synthesis Center (SESYNC) Fellow. Prior to UCD, Klasic was a Policy Analyst at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for 10 years. While at EPA, Klasic worked on Outreach and Communications, Drinking Water Operator Certification and Capacity Development, and Nonpoint Source Pollution Management. Klasic grew up on a tree farm in rural Bucks County, Pennsylvania. She lives in Roseville with her partner, Andrew Leach.

Teaching

Meghan teaches courses in environmental science and policy. Her teaching portfolio includes Climate Change and Global Environmental Sustainability (Johns Hopkins University), Public Lands Management (UC Davis), and Environmental Analysis (UC Davis). She has served as a teaching assistant for courses on water resource management, career planning, Environmental Science, and water quality monitoring. Meghan pursues an active learning classroom that draws on collaborative and constructivist pedagogical approaches.