Margaret “Meg” Egan is an accomplished leader with expertise in strategic, systems-level change. Her work has focused on community-based public safety initiatives and criminal legal system reform centered on decarceration and improving conditions in jails and prisons.
Most recently, Egan served as chief executive officer of the Women’s Prison Association. She previously served as chief operating officer of Fountain House, where she worked to improve health outcomes for people with serious mental illness, and as executive director of the New York City Board of Correction, the oversight body for the City’s jail system.
She has also held senior roles at the City University of New York (CUNY) and the CUNY Institute for State and Local Governance (ISLG) and served as assistant secretary for public safety to the governor of New York. In addition, she led criminal justice reform and violence reduction strategies for the board president and jail conditions reform strategies for the sheriff in Cook County, Illinois.
Egan earned a JD from Loyola University Chicago School of Law, an MA in Public Policy and Administration from Northwestern University, an MA in Social Sciences from the University of Chicago, and a BA from the University of Wisconsin.
