Meg is well known in youth development and education settings as a tenaciously positive leader who is able to mobilize divergent groups around collaborative change initiatives for youth and families facing systemic inequities. An equity driven leader, Meg believes that inclusive decision-making and elevating the voices of communities served are key to sustainable change and lasting impact. She has spent the last twenty-five years developing expertise translating research into actionable and accessible quality improvement and program initiatives and has a proven track record of leading organizations through large scale initiatives that benefit a diverse array of communities. Most recently, Meg led the largest national scale of program quality in any out-of-school time organization nationally. She credits the success of this initiative to building systems that elevated youth and community voice while empowering staff to engage with data to help drive real-time and relevant improvements to their work with communities. Meg is an architect of community and teams, using humor and fun to help teams create solutions collaboratively. Leading with curiosity, Meg embodies continuous improvement and believes that approaching work with curiosity allows for the best ideas to be elevated for action and investment.
Meg received her Bachelor’s degree in psychology from Lewis & Clark College and a Master’s in Social Work from the University of Michigan School of Social. Her 30 years of youth development experience includes corporate strategy, restorative justice, workforce development, work with youth experiencing houselessness, and work across a vast array of cultural settings. When Meg isn’t in the Youth Development trenches you can find her looking for Orcas off the island she lives on in Washington state or practicing ‘moving meditation’ while snowboarding with her 78 year old dad in Breckenridge.