WRRC Welcomes Two New Team Members
This month, the WRRC welcomes two new members to its team: Anna Msigwa and Luna Falk. Dr. Anna Msigwa, who is an accomplished visiting scholar, joins us from Tanzania through the PEER2PEER fellowship program and will be spending the next month working on a transboundary water security project. She is a lecturer and researcher in hydrology and water resources engineering at the Nelson Mandela African Institution of Science and Technology. In 2024, Msigwa completed a post-doctoral fellowship at the University of Pretoria, which was supported by the Carnegie Corporation in New York. She works closely with rural farmers and uses her expertise in agricultural water management to assess water use and to implement best management practices. Msigwa collaborates with local government and experts from various disciplines to devise climate change adaptation strategies for water management to enhance productivity. She is a One Planet laureate by the African Women in Agricultural Research and Development, and in 2022 was awarded the early career fellowship by the Organization for Women in Science for Developing World and UNESCO to expand her current research project on implementing a mobile application for an Early Warning System for Droughts in the Pangani Basin, East Africa.
Luna Falk is a master’s student in Water, Society, and Policy at the U of A, and has studied environmental law and policy in the US and international diplomacy at the University of Oxford in the UK. Her research focuses on cross border water issues and governance, and she is interested in establishing grass root water networks in areas of conflict or political upheaval. While at the WRRC, she will be working on a research project focusing on the Upper Verde Watershed and its community impact. Falk was born and raised in Tucson, plays professional Women’s Ultimate for the Arizona Sidewinders, coaches the U of A Women’s Ultimate team, Scorch, and enjoys napping in the sun with her two dogs. She joins three other continuing students: Ian Cann, Aminta Menjivar, and Noah Rios.