Meghan is a co-founder and the Director of Grace in Action Collectives (GIAC) in Detroit, Michigan, a neighborhood based cooperative and social enterprise incubator. Through community process, critical questions and democratic decision-making, Meghan has led each GIAC cooperative through development and growth. She has worked as a community organizer with the PICO Network for 5 years and as a community organizing consultant for the ELCA national offices.

Four generations of Meghan’s family have resided in Detroit, though she has been raised in both the city and the suburbs. Living and loving people on both sides of metro Detroit has defined Meghan’s life through experience of the realities of equity, race, and opportunities that do and do not exist in both places. Through community process, critical questions and democratic decision-making, Meghan has led each GIAC cooperatives through development and growth. Meghan has a BSW from Capital University and an MDiv. from the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley California. She has worked as a community organizer with the PICO Network for 5 years and as a community organizing consultant for the ELCA national offices.