Megan Brand is an Assistant Professor at the School of Civic and Economic Thought and Leadership at Arizona State University, where she teaches civics and researches international security, with a focus on migration and natural resources. She is the Founder of CamelGuard, a plant-based burp cloth line that encourages culture that is friendly to mothers and babies together. She received her PhD from Princeton University and has degrees from the University of Oxford, the School of Oriental and African Studies, and Arizona State University. An avid gardener, she is learning to cultivate in the Sonoran Desert, following a decade in the Garden State. Follow her garden on Instagram @brandmegan and her writings on Twitter @megancbrand.