Meagan Carmack (she/her/hers)

Meagan is doctoral candidate with the Department of Political Science at the University of Washington particularly interested in climate adaptation policy, the politics of maladaptation and policy-based redressal to environmental justice issues. Her most recent work examines how lessons from maladaptation can improve adaptation governance and interrogates how political incentives shape climate adaptation in the United States. Other recent projects include a look into the electoral payoffs for the Green New Deal for House Democrat incumbents in the 2020 national elections, a systematic review of maladaptation literatures, and a critique of how maladaptation being framed as unintentional or “surprising” by adaptation scholars reduces incentives to adapt to climate change.