Megan Joseph

About Megan Joseph

Megan Joseph, MA is the founding director of Impact Launch (www.impactlaunch.org), a collective of social impact professionals that support individuals, teams and collaboratives to work effectively for equitable and sustainable outcomes in organizations, collaboratives, systems and communities. Megan has worked hands on for over two decades with non-profit social impact organizations and multi-sector collaboratives to design and facilitate leadership development, DEI initiatives, culture change, organizational capacity building and project design.

Prior to Impact Launch, Megan served as Executive Director of Rise Together, a multi-county initiative to cut poverty in the Bay Area, Megan implemented a 250-member coalition for policy and systems change, addressing issues of employment, affordable housing and early childhood education for critical populations. As Director of Community Organizing for the United Way of Santa Cruz County she founded and supported multiple sustained initiatives, including the Santa Cruz County Youth Violence Prevention Task Force and the Community Corrections Partnership Community Engagement Task Force. Megan was recognized with the 2015 National Community Indicators Consortium Emerging Leader award for her work using community indicators as a catalyst for change to reduce youth violence.

Megan has practiced Radical Transformational Leadership for a decade with Monica Sharma, and over the last 11 years launched three leadership programs, Leadership for Community Transformation Santa Cruz County, Leadership for Equity & Opportunity Bay Area and Radical Transformational Leadership for Social Impact nationally which together has trained over 1,600 leaders to design and implement equitable and sustainable social change projects. She has also served as faculty at JFK University. Megan serves on the Board of the Community Foundation of Nevada County and United Way Nevada County and is an advisor for the One of Us Global Foundation. Megan earned an MA in Consciousness Studies from JFK University and an MA in Criminology, Law and Society from UC Irvine.