Dr Erin McFee

Erin, founder of the Corioli Institute, is a Professor of Practice at the William J. Perry Center for Hemispheric Defense Studies at the National Defense University. She specializes in climate security, migration, and the reintegration of formerly armed actors (FAA) such as military veterans and ex-insurgents. A political anthropologist, Erin has published widely across peer-reviewed, popular, and practitioner platforms in over 20 countries. Her research focuses on the climate change, conflict, and migration nexus, with an emphasis on FAA reintegration and security-building. Since 2010, Erin has conducted extensive fieldwork with formerly armed actors, from living alongside ex-guerrillas in Colombia to consulting on al Shabaab reintegration in Somalia. Her work spans research with former cartel members in Mexico, supporting NGOs for ex-gang members in El Salvador, and helping U.S. military veterans with restorative justice.

Jonathan Röders

Jonathan joined Corioli’s predecessor, the Trust After Betrayal project, in September 2022. Since then, he has conducted ethnographic fieldwork in Colombia and Mexico, collaborating and coordinating projects with local partners and contributing to the Institute’s academic and policy research. He has also played a key role in organizing conferences, workshops, and other events. Additionally, Jonathan has been working on the Institute’s brand identity, overseeing its social media, newsletter, and website, and serving as editor of Corioli's Research Brief Series.

Rimjhim Agrawal

Rimjhim holds a Master of Public Policy from the University of Chicago and currently works as the Director of Sustainability for the Corioli Institute. She has delivered projects on the Climate Change, Disaster, Conflict, and Migration Nexus in Kenya and the Arab Region. She spent a summer in Erbil, Iraq, developing a Sustainable Procurement Blueprint for the Prime Minister’s Office and designing economic diversification initiatives. Rimjhim has also worked with the World Bank and the DC-based education nonprofit Genesys Works, and she previously served as a climate and disaster risk analyst in an international context.

John Gordon Sennett

John has lived in Ukraine since 2020, witnessing the full-scale invasion firsthand. Co-author of the Accidental Ukrainians series and co-developer of the Narrative Processing methodology, John bridges the gap between raw conflict experience and the path to post-traumatic growth to include addressing moral injury. He has taught the methodology to military psychologists and chaplains on the ground.

John Mueller

John leads primary-source field research and in-country research teams for the Corioli Institute across the Arab region. His work centers on qualitative and mixed-methods research into how communities experience conflict, displacement, and local political and social change. Over the past several years he has built and managed multinational research teams and helped design humanitarian programming for conflict-affected populations across the region. He works not only through local researchers and partners but on the ground himself, regularly traveling into the communities his research focuses on — an approach grounded in sustained fieldwork and close local relationships rather than remote analysis. John holds an MA in Statecraft and International Affairs with a Middle Eastern specialization from the Institute of World Politics, completed a directed study on conflict in the Middle East and Horn of Africa at Oxford's Trinity College, and earned a BA in International Studies from Fordham.