Megan Sheahan

Position	Research Support Specialist
Area of Interest	Agricultural Development and Food Security
Email Address	mbs282@cornell.edu

Megan Sheahan is currently a research support specialist at Cornell University. She holds an M.S. in Agricultural Economics from Michigan State University where her master's thesis explored the profitability and use of inorganic fertilizer in Kenya using household-level panel data she helped to collect. Megan also holds a B.A. in economics and international relations from Boston University where interest in Fair Trade coffee prompted a senior research project on how the certification was affecting smallholder farmers in two cooperatives in Mexico and Tanzania. Between college and graduate school, she worked in project management at Chemonics International and on the technical team for the Famine Early Warning Systems Network (FEWS NET). Post-graduate school, Megan has worked as an independent consultant, taking on a number of short term programmatic and research projects related to agricultural development and food security. In her free time, Megan enjoys ballet, yoga, and cooking with her husband, Graham.