Dr. Megan Welsh Carroll Received the Dignity Defender of the Year Award from Think Dignity

In October 2023, Dr. Megan Welsh Carroll, Associate Professor of Public Administration and Criminal Justice, received the inaugural Dignity Defender of the Year Award from Think Dignity, a San Diego grassroots non-profit that advocates for the rights and humanity of people facing housing insecurity. She shares this award with Judith Vaughs of Planned Parenthood of the Pacific Southwest. 

Megan and Judy were honored for their ongoing collaboration with Think Dignity via the Project for Sanitation Justice [bathrooms.sdsu.edu]. Through PSJ, Dr. Welsh Carroll leads a large and passionate team of SDSU students and faculty in conducting action research to inform smarter and more equitable approaches to making drinking water, restrooms, trash collection, menstrual hygiene resources, and other basic health supplies more accessible for all San Diegans – especially those who rely on public facilities to meet their daily bodily needs.