Hi, I'm Megan.

Over the years, I've worn many hats in newsrooms: editor, audience strategist, social media manager, website producer, fact-checker, project coordinator, podcast editor, and occasional firefighter when a project needed someone to jump in and figure things out. I love connecting people, building communities, and helping good ideas become reality.

Today, I work at Nieman Reports, a publication of the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard, where I get to work with reporters and newsroom leaders from around the world every day.  

My experience sits at the intersection of editorial, audience engagement, and operations. I've managed contributors and fact-checkers across multiple time zones, overseen digital publishing and audience growth strategies, and coordinated international reporting projects. As interim audience engagement editor at Nieman Reports, I helped increase digital traffic by 20% while supporting the publication's day-to-day editorial operations. In 2024, I led editorial operations for our Spring 2024 feature on Gaza, which was a 2025 Mirror Award finalist. I recruited and coordinated Arabic-speaking fact-checkers and fixers based in Cairo, London, and Gaza, to support our original reporting and photo verification efforts across Arabic and English sources.

Outside of my day job, I'm passionate about creating spaces where journalists can learn from one another and build lasting community. I serve as president of the Asian American Journalists Association's New England chapter, co-director of Yung AAJA and a board member and podcast managing editor for NüVoices. In 2025, I built Yung AAJA's Online Toolkit for emerging journalists and regularly moderate our virtual events and panels. At NüVoices, I launched the organization's workshop series, which has become its primary source of revenue. 

I've been invited as a guest speaker at Boston University's College of Communication, Arizona State University, and currently mentor college students through AAJA's Mentor Match program. I'm available for college class visits, workshop facilitation, and event moderation about building a journalism career: internships, freelancing, networking, and navigating a changing media industry.

I'm currently based in Boston, but I've also lived in Beijing, Shanghai, and New York City. I grew up in Tampa, Florida. Moving and living across different places and cultures taught me how to adapt quickly, find common ground, and build relationships with all kinds of people. 

Before I moved into journalism, I worked in Shanghai as an ESL teacher and staff community manager, where I translated internal communications between Mandarin and English, wrote the organization's first sexual harassment code of conduct, and planned events for a staff of more than 100. That experience — building programs and communicating across language and culture for a large, dispersed team — became the foundation for the audience and community work I do now.

I've worked as an au pair, a UN intern, and a competitive figure skater. I graduated from Columbia Journalism School in 2020 and was honored to be selected as a 2022 Pulitzer Center Reporting Fellow.