Meg Campbell

Meg Campbell is a poet and essayist, educator and community activist. She has a deep interest in experienced-based learning, public health, arts, human development and the environment. As a resident of Dorchester for more than forty years, she is passionate about improving opportunities and quality of life for all in her adopted home town. Meg is a founder and former Head of School, Codman Academy Charter Public School and currently serves on the Codman Academy Foundation Board. She was a founder of EL Education (formerly Expeditionary Learning Outward Bound) and served as its founding Executive Director while also holding an appointment as Lecturer at Harvard Graduate School of Education where she taught. She served on the Boston School Committee. Meg is vice-president of the Boston Women’s Heritage Trail which she co-founded in 1989. She serves on the board of the Halcyon Foundation in New York which supports the work of the American Museum and Gardens in Bath, England. Meg was a founding board member of The Primary School in East Palo Alto, California and a founder and former board member of the Margarita Muñiz Academy, Boston’s first dual language secondary school. She was Research Director of the Massachusetts Senate Health Care Committee where she was instrumental in passage of the nation’s first IVF insurance coverage. Prior to that she worked as a community organizer in Arkansas, Texas, Louisiana, Vermont and New Hampshire. Awards include the American Youth Foundation "Youth Leadership Award" and Grand Circle Travel Foundation's "Lewis Changing People's Award."

Meg is the author of two collections of poetry from Midmarch Arts Press: More Love (2010) and Solo Crossing (1999). Her essays have appeared in The Boston Globe, MS Magazine and Dorchester Reporter. She holds an A.B. Cum Laude from Radcliffe College, Harvard University in History & Literature, an M.S. from Wheelock College in Early Childhood & Elementary Education, and a C.A.S. from Harvard Graduate School of Education in Social Policy.