In these roles, she led the statewide budget process to deliver the Governor’s budget on time and within guidance for principal departments. She managed General Fund balancing and baseline, as well as providing strategic and technical support for budget decision-making and negotiations. Megan also oversaw, trained and supervised a team of analysts while liaising with Cabinet members, the statewide budget directors’ group and department budget directors.

Before that, Megan served as a senior budget and policy analyst for Douglas County where she worked under the county manager to provide financial, budget and policy analysis, evaluations and administrative recommendations of programs, projects and expenditures. In addition, she integrated multi-channel communications of proposed legislative changes and the projected impacts on various county programs between the County Commissioners and staff program experts.

Megan started her career as non-partisan staff for the Colorado Joint Budget Committee, where she developed an understanding of the operational, financial and policy issues impacting multiple state departments and made independent recommendations to members of the Colorado Joint Budget Committee.

Megan received her bachelor’s from the University of Notre Dame and her masters of public policy from the University of Denver.