Megan Conway

Megan Conway loves sparking creativity, curiosity, and capacity across teams, organizations, and networks to mobilize social change. With 20 years of diverse leadership roles in government and the charitable, voluntary, and academic sectors, Megan has been recognized for her ability to scale innovation, to use evaluative thinking to build and adapt programs, and as a systems change champion. 

Dr. Conway earned her PhD at the University of Waterloo in Urban Planning with a focus on community development and scaling social innovations across sites and scales. Megan is most proud, professionally, of her efforts to create systems that enable youth participation, equity, and achievement. Starting as a volunteer in Regent Park, she spent over a decade as a senior leader within Pathways to Education – launching the Kitchener program and then becoming the National Vice President of Programs and Research. She is also the co-founder of the Laurier School in the Community, a unique service-learning offering option at Laurier. Megan spent eight years as the Academic Chair of Health and Community Programs at Algonquin College in the Ottawa Valley where she launched a Rural Enterprise Hub and managed a diverse professional team of 100 faculty to enable student success. 

Currently, Megan serves as a Fellow at Carleton University’s School of Public Administration and Policy where she leads international research on charitable sector capacity building and place-based change. Megan loves the snow and any chance she can to get on to a bicycle. She lives with her husband and two young children in the Ottawa Valley.