Experience: As the Clinical Innovation Programs Manager, Megan helps shape and execute the Alliance of Community Health Plan’s clinical innovation strategy, which supports and advances ACHP’s vision and mission and guides its learning and innovation efforts. Prior to joining ACHP, she worked for a wildlife conservation and animal advocacy nonprofit, where she served as the Program & Executive Assistant.

Hometown: Chattanooga, TN
Chattanooga is known as “The Scenic City” and is beloved by outdoor enthusiasts.

Academia:
Master’s in Social Work, University of Alabama
B.S. in Psychology, Birmingham-Southern College
Licensed Graduate Social Worker (LGSW) in the District of Columbia

Awards and Publications:

The Gender Self-Report: A multidimensional gender characterization tool for gender-diverse and cisgender youth and adults (American Psychologist, 2023)

In addition to stigma: Cognitive and autism-related predictors of mental health in transgender adolescents (Journal of Clinical Child & Adolescent Psychology, 2021)

A clinical program for transgender and gender-diverse autistic/neurodiverse adolescents developed through community-based participatory design (Journal of Clinical Child & Adolescent Psychology, 2020)

Community-based participatory design for research that impacts the lives of transgender and/or gender-diverse autistic and/or neurodiverse people (Clinical Practice in Pediatric Psychology, 2019)

“They thought it was an obsession”: Trajectories and perspectives of autistic transgender and gender-diverse adolescents (Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2018)

MSW Award for Excellence in Social Work Writing, 2012

Edward C. Tolman Award in Psychology, 2010

Did you know?
Megan volunteers with Children’s National Health System as a researcher on autism spectrum disorder and gender diversity.