Since 2009 Megan has worked as a photographer mainly in music and live performance documentation in Tio’tia:ke/Mooniyang (Montréal) at various festivals and for bands of friends. From 2013 to 2020 they worked as a grant writer, researcher, web designer, and studio and administrative assistant (+) for artists including Nadia Myre, Michael Flomen and Nadine Faraj and others. They worked in administration, visitor services, negotiations, grant-writing, research, media and communications, event and volunteer coordination, archives and collections, and in public outreach and programming positions, including at the Galt Museum & Archives and at the Southern Alberta Art Gallery. In 2018-2019 they worked as Outreach and Administrative Coordinator at the Concordia Greenhouse Project where they increased media coverage for the events they organized, including DIY sustainable workshops, concerts, performances, parties, and plant sales, while also organizing outreach and communications to support students, volunteers, interns, artists and the wider sustainability community of Montréal. They also worked as a union organizer for AGSEM/CSN-FNÉEQ, AMUSE/PSAC, AMURE, and with other groups.
They served as Secretary on the Board of Directors at the non-profit articule, artist-run centre in Montréal from 2017-2018. From 2014-2020, they volunteered delivering “Meals-on-Wheels” and providing occasional volunteer photography services at Santropol Roulant, an amazing organization that combats food insecurity and an excellent social entrepreneurial model dedicated to improving access to local sustainable resources and inter-generational community-building. In 2007 they graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Art, with an emphasis in Art History and Museum Studies from the University of Lethbridge, and in 2013 they earned a Master of Arts in Art History in the Department of Art History and Communication Studies at McGill University, Montréal.
OTHER CERTIFICATIONS AND TRAINING
-First Aid 8H / CPR AED Adult, Child, Infant, AP 1.5H certification - valid: March 16, 2019 - March 16, 2022.
-Naloxone training, session led by Richard Davy, McGill School of Social Work: July 8, 2019.
-CERT (Community Emergency Response Team) training - Concordia University Security Services: February 7, 2019.
-Consensus decision-making and Conflict Resolution workshop, led by Eddie Jude Hareven (conflict resolution and management services): January 2019.
-Anti-oppression workshop, led by Kama La Mackerel at articule, artist-run centre: March 3, 2018.
-Major gift fundraiser workshop for the Board of Directors at articule: “Fundraising and Major Gifts: The Annual Campaign” (“Collecte de fonds et les dons majeurs: la campaign annuelle”) by Marie Archambault, Consultant and Trainer in Fundraising, and former Director of Development for the Foundation of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Montréal: February 20, 2018.