Megan Corrado, Acting Deputy Executive Director and Senior Director for Policy and Advocacy

Megan E. Corrado currently serves as the Acting Deputy Executive Director and Senior Director for Policy and Advocacy with the Alliance for Peacebuilding. She is an international lawyer and policy practitioner working to prevent and resolve conflict and atrocities and promote peace, human rights, gender mainstreaming, and justice and accountability. In addition to her work at the Alliance for Peacebuilding, she is an adjunct professor at The George Washington University’s Elliott School of International Affairs where she teaches women’s rights in international law and policy.

Megan has extensive experience in international development, grant implementation, advocacy, and political campaign management. She has worked on democracy, human rights, and governance, rule of law, transitional justice, and peacebuilding programs and processes in conflict-affected and post-conflict states across the Middle East and North Africa, Southeast Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa, and Eastern Europe.

Before joining the Alliance for Peacebuilding, Megan served as the Director of Advocacy with Women for Afghan Women, as well as an attorney with Cohen, Milstein, Sellers, and Toll and Program Director and Counsel with the Public International Law and Policy Group. In addition, Megan worked in the Office of the Secretary of Defense, Office of the General Counsel, United States Department of Defense; the US House of Representatives; and the British House of Commons.

Since 2018, Megan has served on the Executive Committee of the US Civil Society Working Group on Women, Peace, and Security, including as Chair and Co-Chair. She is also a member of the Global Gender Coalitions' Co-Chairs Working Group and an Advisory Board Member of the Charity and Security Network.

Megan earned her JD, magna cum laude, Order of the Coif, from American University Washington College of Law; BA, summa cum laude, in Political Science and English from the University of Rhode Island; and studied public policy at the London School of Economics and Political Science and international law at the Asser Institute in The Hague. Proudly born and raised in New Jersey, Megan currently resides in Old Town Alexandria with her husband and yellow labrador, Pasqualle, and can often be found running, hiking, and, stereotypically, listening to Bruce Springsteen.