Biography
Megan Ybarra is an affiliate associate professor in the Department of Geography. She is interested in radical placemaking, abolition geographies and environmental justice across Abiayala (also known as the Américas). Her research has included archival research of community records and planning documents, surveys, participant observation and institutional ethnographies to explore the workings of power relations and promise of liberation. She continues to work with current students in the program who are researching abolition, migration, environmental justice and/or Latinx geographies.
Professor Ybarra taught and advised students at the University of Washington for ten years before accepting a position as associate professor at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD).