Megan E. Corrado currently serves as the Senior Director for Policy and Advocacy with the Alliance for Peacebuilding. She is an international lawyer and policy practitioner working to prevent conflict and atrocities and promote human rights, peacebuilding, gender mainstreaming, and justice and accountability around the world. In addition to her role at the Alliance for Peacebuilding, she is an adjunct professor at the George Washington University, where she teaches gender, human rights, and international law.
Megan has extensive experience in international development, 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 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 E. Corrado
Senior Director of Policy and Advocacy, Alliance for Peacebuilding
