Interests & passions, in no particular order
Climate Change, Environment & Sustainability
Social Justice, Racial Justice & Human Rights (Meg has completed the Ally to Accomplice program by The Woke Coach and continues to do the work on her anti-racist and intersectional feminist journey)
Mental and Physical Health and Wellness, thanks to her allergic-to-everything but always joyful 2-year-old
Youth Education & Development
Evidence-Based Design (Fun fact: Her thesis in undergrad examined “The Psychology of Interior Design in Healthcare Facilities: A Focus on Evidence-Based Design against Prognosis Outcomes”)
Travel & Exploration
Space and Dinosaurs, thanks to her bright and enthusiastic STEM-obsessed 5-year-old
About Me
In third-person
Meg (she/her/hers) is a leader in driving strategy, program design, scalability, and capacity-building for social impact organizations. She is currently the Director of the Social Impact Institute at Thomson Reuters leading the development and delivery of global programs aligned with access to justice and transparency.
Prior, Meg tackled the new role of Managing Director at HandsOn Twin Cities in which she built the Pro Bono Advisory Program soup-to-nuts to design, implement, and scale pro bono programming across sectors. Corporate partners included Target, Unilever, General Mills, Xcel Energy, Thrivent, and Land O’Lakes. The Pro Bono Advisory Program grew exponentially under her leadership and, in just under two years and throughout the hardships of 2020, had infused nearly $1M worth in pro bono support into the nonprofit and BIPOC-owned small business communities.
Meg is the Founder of Impact Day MSP, a day-long cross-sector hackathon that leverages corporate sector talent for social sector needs. Impact Day is currently being run as a program of HandsOn Twin Cities to support its successful growth. Additionally, Meg launched her own consultancy in which she has worked with nonprofits, mission-driven startups, social entrepreneurs, and global social enterprises.
Meg serves on the board of Minneapolis-based nonprofit, Everyday Miracles, which provides evidence-based care to under-resourced pregnant women and moms. She was a member of Star Tribune’s 2030 Project, headed up by their Chief Marketing Officer, which was a small team of community members who lent their voice and expertise to make Star Tribune more relevant and more responsive to the people who represent our region's future.
Meg formerly brought her pro bono expertise to the west coast employee engagement team at Salesforce.org after six years at the Taproot Foundation in San Francisco, most recently as the National Director of Program Delivery & Design in which she scaled and led the national program team across the Bay Area, Chicago, LA, NYC, and DC, and spearheaded the redesign of the flagship program to drive better outcomes for nonprofit clients, pro bono consultants, and national funders. Before her span at Taproot, Meg worked at several direct-service nonprofits as well as in healthcare, hospitality, and legal support services in San Francisco, Minneapolis, Omaha, and Amsterdam, NL.
When she’s not changing the world, she’s changing diapers at her least profitable but most valuable job as Mom.