Madelyn MacMurray is a Research Assistant with the Environmental Security Program at the Stimson Center. Prior to joining the Stimson Center, Madelyn was a Land and Environmental Defender Research Assistant at the State Department, focusing on extractive cases in Latin America. She has also worked on research projects in the Ohio State University’s Departments of History and Political Science. She has also served as a member of the Emerging Leaders Council at the Ohio Environmental Council and as a Policy Research Intern at the Ohio State House.
Madelyn graduated summa cum laude from Ohio State in 2024 with a Bachelor’s in International Studies. Their senior research thesis was an econometric analysis of Colombia’s land restitution policy, focusing on the institutional legacies of wartime land dispossession on developmental policy. For this work, she received Ohio State’s International Research Grant and Undergraduate Research Scholarship in 2023. She is interested in natural resource management, sustainable infrastructure development, illicit markets, and agrarian change.
