Megan DeSmedt
is MASSPIRG's Assistant Organizing Director for eastern Massachusetts.
Megan grew up in New Jersey, and graduated from the College of William
and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia with a degree in Environmental
Geology in 2000. She started working with Ohio PIRG as a campus
organizer at Oberlin College, and later worked with ecopledge.com, a
corporate accountability campaign that focuses on getting companies to
make significant changes in their environmental practices. She also
helped organize ECOnference in the fall of 2001, a national student
environmental conference held in Washington, DC, with over 2,000
students in attendance.
In November of 2001, Megan moved to Chapel
Hill, North Carolina, where she worked with students on the Youth Vote
campaign, registering, educating, and mobilizing thousands of students
to get out and vote on Election Day. Megan moved to Boston in July of
2003 to become the Assistant Organizing Director with the MASSPIRG
student chapters in eastern Massachusetts. Under her leadership, the
program has raised thousands of dollars for the hungry and homeless,
registered over 10,000 young voters, and helped convince the governor
of Massachusetts to develop a plan to cut the state's global warming
pollution. During her summers, Megan directed campaign offices in
Boston, Seattle, Chapel Hill and Charlotte.
