OUR TEAM
The Corioli Institute's young and dynamic team brings together diverse academic and professional backgrounds. Our strength lies in the rich variety of knowledge, life experiences, and perspectives that inform our work, continuously reinforcing our commitment to principled leadership and intellectual rigor.
Founder – President & Chair
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.
Co-Founder – Director of Projects & Programs
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.
Co-Founder – Director of Sustainability
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.
Senior Advisor – Ukraine
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.
