Jennifer C. Veilleux

Dr. Jennifer Veilleux is a geographer and environmental scientist. She has worked on transboundary freshwater basins around the world through research and analysis of international diplomacy efforts, national development agendas, and local impacts for more than 15 years. Veilleux's work centers on water security and sustainable river management, particularly in marginalized communities. She combines art and science through photodocumentation and public art installations that focus on the story of scientifically studied and community discussed water-related changes. She has produced scholarship on these topics, as well as other water-related security topics, and published in Science, Limnology and Oceanography, and Humans and Nature among other journals, websites, newspapers and magazines. She has contributed as a consultant to articles in National Geographic, Foreign Policy, and High Country News about the Nile and the water conflicts in Indian Country. She is currently a research affiliate for Florida International University's Institute of Environment and the Steven J. Green School of International & Public Affairs. She is also a professor of practice for Tulane University’s School of Science and Engineering, Department of Earth and Environment.