Lisa Maillard

Project focus: The Fellow will work with funders to develop a repository of field-tested, promising funding practices to inform investments in community-engaged and policy-relevant research and contribute to supporting other efforts of a global network of funders working at the intersection of research, policy, practice, and community.

Lisa Maillard is a Senior Associate at the Pew Charitable Trusts and a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Michigan’s School for Environment and Sustainability (SEAS). At Pew, she is working with the Transforming Evidence Project to create a repository of tried, tested, and best practice materials contributed by members of the Transforming Evidence Funders Network. She is also helping to design other research initiatives that can help members of the Funders Network better provide evidence-focused funding and support at the institutional level. Her dissertation focuses on scaling up and accelerating actionable knowledge creation and use in climate adaptation. As a student at SEAS, she has worked with the National Estuarine Research Reserve System Science Collaborative and the Great Lakes Integrated Sciences and Assessments program. She is a part of a network called the Science of Actionable Knowledge, which does work on the research of research use and the interface between science and society. In her free time, she enjoys taking part in Dungeons and Dragons campaigns and being an enthusiastic, if unskilled, member of intermural kickball.