Megan served as the founding rabbi of Base in Chicago, leading the Base communities in Lincoln Park and Andersonville alongside her wife Paige from 2016-2022. Rabbi Megan now serves as the Executive Director of Tribe12 in Philadelphia.

 
Megan grew up in Oak Park where she found her voice as a Jewish leader at her Conservative youth group and Reform summer camp. She graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 2006 with a B.A. in Psychology and Women’s Studies. Megan then went to work for the Hillel at Yale University where she discovered her passion for working with college students. From that discovery, she realized that—rather than pursue a PhD in Clinical Psychology—she wanted to empower young adults to create their own rich Jewish identities by using Jewish tradition as a source of meaning. Megan was ordained by the Jewish Theological Seminary in 2014. She also received an MA in Jewish Gender and Women’s Studies and a certificate in Pastoral Care and Counseling.

Megan is an alumna of the Wexner Graduate Fellowship and, prior to joining Base, Megan served as the Senior Jewish Educator at Columbia/Barnard Hillel. She has a passion for travel and outdoor adventure which has led her to forty-eight of the fifty states in the US.