Becca Farnum

Location
London, UK
Udall Year(s)
2011
Udaller Type
Scholar
Undergraduate Education
Michigan State University, 2012
Graduate Education
MSc, Water Security and International Development (University of East Anglia)
LLM, International Law (University of Edinburgh)
PhD, Geography (King's College London)
Short Bio
Becca Farnum is an environmental peacebuilding researcher and educator. She works at the intersections of environmental activism, conflict resolution, and capacity-building with a particular passion for justice and equity, leveraging academia for public service and policy impact. Her work has included contributing to United Nations and International Law Commission policy on environmental peacebuilding; engaging underrepresented students in university learning through Widening Participation initiatives; and supporting government transparency through a stint with Michelle Obama’s Correspondence Team at The White House.

A few of her active research partnerships examine marine conservation and coral science in the Gulf with the Kuwait Dive Team; fog harvesting and water engineering in Morocco with Dar Si Hmad; and agroforestry for sustainable land management in Rwanda with We Do Green.
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