Marisol Meyer–Driovínto
Ph.D. Student
Mentor: Yolanda Lin, Ph.D.
Bio
Born and raised in northern New Mexico with family roots in Albuquerque, Marisol Meyer-Driovínto feels grounded in the New Mexican landscape and works to serve its diverse communities. She is an artist by nature and a community and regional planner by practice, deeply appreciating and respecting the natural world.
Meyer-Driovínto earned her bachelor's degree in architecture and design from The University of New Mexico (UNM). After graduation, she spent time in Alicante, Spain, where she discovered her passion for community and regional planning and transdisciplinary research. She is completing her master's in community and regional planning at UNM and beginning her Ph.D. in Geography and Environmental Studies.
Meyer-Driovínto is a research graduate assistant for the Intermountain West Transformation Network, working closely with Yolanda C. Lin and other network members. She is also a founding organizer of Shared.Futures is an initiative that brings local artists and scientists together to envision research-based possible futures through an annual workshop at the Explora Children's Science Museum. In 2023, she was an invited speaker and panelist at the American Geophysical Union meeting to present on the Shared.Futures program and has been invited back as an early career co-convener for the "Science and Society: Art and Science" session at the 2024 meeting.
Her master's research in Community and Regional Planning examines the Santa Fe River Watershed government stakeholders, focusing on innovative methods to expand qualitative analysis with systems thinking approaches to improve planning solutions. At UNM, Meyer-Driovínto's research collaborations include working with Yolanda C. Lin in Geography and Environmental Studies and Renia Ehrenfeucht in Community and Regional Planning.