Meagan’s career centers on creating opportunities to recruit and advance underserved individuals in engineering & computer science. She brought experience in leading professional development on access, equity, & inclusion as the chair of CDEI's Professional Development (PD) committee. She has lead this team for multiple years now. As part of that work, she has helped organize the new slate of DEI education sessions at the ASEE Annual Conference in 2019 & 2020, 2021, and 2022. Working collaboratively with her team the PD committee launched the Virtual Workshop series and the Cultivating Inclusive Communities pilot program. This year, she also took on facilitation of the ASEE CDEI strategic planning process with support from Tasha and Liz, but has largely lead all the sessions and the process; this has been a large lift outside of her normal PD Committee responsibilities.

Meagan is committed to empowering and mentoring upcoming scholars in engineering education to be leaders. As PD chair, she created teams responsible for different aspects of the work. All the team leaders are/were early scholars from systematically marginalized groups, promoting networks among them. We received amazing feedback from them about Meagan. In particular, they talked about how she provided one-on-one mentoring, opportunities to EngEd graduate students, and encouraged them to self-advocate and find their voices. Her commitment to equity and inclusion was mentioned multiple times. She was described as both creating structures and empowering others to support inclusion.