An experienced nonprofit leader who has served on boards of both community organizations and educational institutions, Meagher served as a founder and leader of three start-ups responsible for strategic planning, board development, fundraising, and operations. Meagher is an experienced nonprofit leader in realms beyond higher education, with a particular focus on community and economic development, women and LGBTQ issues, and arts and culture.

Empowering Women for Education, Inc.

Meagher was a co-founder and currently serves as Vice President. Empowering Women for Education raises funds and supports women pursuing advanced degrees. Our current focus is supporting students enrolled in the Master’s Programme in the Centre for Gender Studies at the University Rwanda (Meagher was a founding faculty member of this program, originally housed at the Kigali Institue for Education’s Centre for Gender, Culture, and Development).

The Public Philosophy Network

Meagher was also the co-founder and co-director of the Public Philosophy Network (2010), an individual and institutional membership organization that supports publicly engaged research and teaching by philosophers and their collaborators. The organization has flourished and was recently incorporated. Reports from the founding meeting and a report commissioned by the Kettering Foundation resulting from interviews of leading members can be found here.

Mulberry Central Neighborhood Development Corporation (MCNDC)

In the 1990s, Meagher worked with the city officials in Scranton, corporate partners, community leaders, area nonprofit organizations and higher education institutions and her neighbors to found Mullberry Central Neighborhood Development Corporation, a nonprofit organization that leveraged public-private partnerships to foster economic development in Scranton, PA.