Megan Carroll (2009 - 2010)

United States of America - Ireland

Megan interned recently at the Noor Al-Hussein Foundation of Jordan; she has lived in South Africa as a Rotary International exchange student, Japan as a participant in the JET program, Guyana with the U.S. Department of State, and the Netherlands as a law clerk at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia.  Prior to graduate school, Megan worked at Harvard University's Committee on Human Rights Studies where she managed the Scholars at Risk program that  provides fellowships for persecuted academics from overseas.

A dual citizen of Ireland and the United States, Megan has visited over 30 countries, most recently Jordan where she interned at the Noor Al-Hussein Foundation.  She has a passion for human rights and foreign policy – her experiences abroad include South Africa as a Rotary International exchange student, Japan as a participant in the JET program, Guyana with the U.S. Department of State, and the Netherlands as a law clerk at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia. Megan also spent time in Sierra Leone and Liberia with the International Rescue Committee on a project focused on countering youth and child labour through education. She spent three years as a Resident Tutor in Public Service for Harvard undergraduates of Eliot House  and in 2007 was selected by McGill University to attend the International Forum for Young Leaders in Montreal. Currently, Megan serves as a Senior Fellow of the Humanity in Action Foundation.

Originally from San Diego, California, Megan recently received a Master in Public Policy degree from the Harvard Kennedy School of Government where she was a Kennedy Fellow.  She was also a member of Harvard’s Scholars at Risk Committee and of the Student Advisory Board of the Center for Public Leadership. Prior to graduate school, Megan worked at Harvard University's Committee on Human Rights Studies where she managed the Scholars at Risk program, providing fellowships for persecuted academics from overseas. Megan graduated magna cum laude from Amherst College in 2002.  As an undergraduate, she spent a year studying international relations and human rights at the London School of Economics.

Megan is motivated to be a Sauvé Scholar to learn from a diverse group of peers who share her passion to advance human rights and engage in social justice work. With the guidance of her Academic Mentor, David Lank, Director Emeritus of the Dobson Centre for Entrepreneurial Studies, she plans to continue her involvement in refugee advocacy while researching humanitarian policy issues, with a strong focus on ways to reform and modernize U.S. foreign assistance.  She will take lessons and insights learned and apply them to a career in advocacy and international development.