Megan is a water law attorney at the Department of the Interior, where she works on issues related to western water rights, water allocation, and agency compliance with the ESA and the Clean Water Act.  In addition to litigation responsibilities, she advises agencies on water-related projects to benefit listed species.  She currently is working on a project that will remove Chiloquin Dam in Oregon to improve habitat for endangered fish species in the Klamath Basin. 

Megan is interested in international water allocation and environmental justice issues, particularly in South America and Africa.  She  advised a community group in Bolivia in dealing with a large hydropower company to try to secure funding for local environmental mitigation efforts in response to dam construction.  Megan is a graduate of Cornell University and a 1997 graduate of Northwestern School of Law at Lewis and Clark College, where she was an Associate Editor of Environmental Law and a founding member of Animal Law, the first law journal dedicated to animal rights.