Connecting policy, people, and place to solve complex cross-border problems.
Bridging the Americas is the strategy and research practice of Lisa L. Munro, PhD. I combine more than 15 years of U.S.–Latin America experience with governance research, fieldwork, and stakeholder mapping to help organizations identify opportunities, understand constraints, and make better decisions across the U.S.–Mexico relationship.
I help businesses, institutions, and organizations understand complex cross-border environments so they can identify opportunities, navigate constraints, and make better strategic decisions.
I combine governance research, fieldwork, stakeholder mapping, and partnership development to uncover how policy, institutions, infrastructure, and local conditions shape what is possible in practice.
Strategy & Governance
I investigate how policy, institutions, stakeholders, infrastructure, and local conditions interact in practice—helping organizations identify opportunities, anticipate constraints, and make better strategic decisions.
Areas of Practice
Partnership Development
I build the relationships that make cross-border partnerships work. Trust, sustained engagement, and reciprocity turn introductions into durable institutional collaboration.
Urbanism & Mobility
I examine how people move through cities and how streets, transportation systems, land use, and public space function on the ground. I help organizations identify gaps, evaluate interventions, and understand their real-world impacts.
Bridging the Americas
Essays and field notes on governance, mobility, and political economy across the Americas.