Dr Megan Lorraine Debin holds a PhD from the Department of Art History at University of California, Los Angeles, where she also earned a Master’s degree in Latin American Studies and a Bachelor’s degree in Art History and Italian. She is currently a full-time Professor of Art History at Fullerton College, where she teaches Mexican, Latin American and Asian art history courses, as well as Western/European art history surveys. She often teaches part-time at California State University, Long Beach and other area colleges. Her research interests include contemporary performance and land art in Mexico, ancient indigenous arts, contemporary global indigenous arts, feminist, activist, and street art, and her pedagogical interests center on social justice, innovation, and technology. Her dissertation, titled "Body Traces: Contemporary Art Against Violence in Mexico" benefitted from the support of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and UC Mexus.

She is also the founder and director of Art Trippin’, which is her passion project that helps make art and travel more accessible through both online educational content as well as through curated travel experiences. 

When not teaching or traveling, she spends her free time viewing art, tasting local cuisine, or exploring the earth's natural landscapes. She is interested in all things culture: philosophy, politics, poetry, memes, music, fashion, food and wine, coffee and tea, technology, tattoos, and gardens - basically anything that humans make beautiful!

Dr Megan believes that art and travel can change the world. When we travel, we have new experiences and learn about other ways of thinking, other ways of living. This broadens our perspective and teaches us empathy, but this also teaches us what we have in common in our shared human existence. And when we experience art, we learn to think critically. If we can open our minds, then we can grow and change and become the best versions of ourselves. And if we can all become a little bit better, then society will change for the better. 

Ordinary people can create extraordinary change.