22 Facts About Megan Beyer

Megan Carroll Beyer was born on June 5,1957 and is an American journalist, activist, and lifelong advocate of women's rights and gender issues.

Megan Beyer has served as an advisor to many arts and civic organizations, including Civic Nation, the American Film Institute, and the Better Angels Society.

In 1984, Megan Beyer began her career as a reporter covering education and politics for local and national television news programs.

Megan Beyer was a regular contributor to Tamedia newspapers in Switzerland from 2010 to 2013.

Megan Beyer is a regular panelist on PBS's To the Contrary, the only national television program devoted to women's issues.

Megan Beyer has been a frequent columnist in various publications, including the Alexandria Times and Times Community Newspapers, a chain in Northern Virginia.

In 2010, Megan Beyer founded the bilateral Swiss-US project, Sisters Republics, which accelerates private market drivers to break the glass ceiling.

Megan Beyer served as the External Relations Representative for the Swiss-based EDGE Gender Certification, a company that certifies companies achieving a global standard of gender certification.

Megan Beyer served as executive director of the President's Committee on the Arts and Humanities from 2015 to January 2017.

Megan Beyer served as Finance Chair on the Virginia State Board for Community Colleges; on the board of the Virginia Foundation for Community College Education; as a trustee of Washington's public television station, WETA-TV; and on the national board of Reading Is Fundamental.

Megan Beyer held leadership positions in the Obama presidential campaign, including as Mid Atlantic finance chair for Women for Obama; as a member of the leadership committee of Women for Obama in Virginia; as a member of the National Finance Committee; and as co-chair of the National Women's Leadership Initiative Conference; and as Chair of the Women's Leadership Forum at the Democratic National Committee.

Megan Beyer received two Emmy nominations and a Virginia Associated Press award for her work at WTVR in Richmond.

In 1996, Megan Beyer co-chaired, with Lynda Johnson Robb, Every Child by Two, a project to immunize children in Virginia.

Megan Beyer has been active in NARAL at the state and national levels, and in 2006 was honorary co-chair of NARAL's national fundraiser.

Megan Beyer spoke at the United Nations World Economic Ideas Sessions on gender equality, participated in the Geena Davis Gender in the Media panel on Women in Film.

Megan Beyer served on a US Institute of Peace panel on gender issues in the Middle East and she was on the council that chose Petronille Vaweka for USIP's Women Building Peace Award.

Megan Beyer spoke at the 2014 Obama White House Summit on Working Families.

Megan Beyer serves as an advisor to a range of arts and civic organizations, including Civic Nation, the American Film Institute, and the Better Angels Society.

Megan Beyer serves on the board of the Wilson Center's Women and Public Service Project, the Geena Davis Institute for Gender in Media, the Library of Congress, The John W Kluge Center Advisory Group, and Meridian International.

Megan Beyer is a member of the International Women's Forum, is an advisory board member of Equal AI, and was appointed by the Virginia governor to serve on the Virginia Humanities Board.

Megan Beyer is a partner in several real estate ventures and holds an interest in the Beyer Automotive Group with dealerships in Alexandria, Falls Church and Dulles.

Megan Beyer is the mother of Clara and Grace, and stepmother of Stephanie Beyer Kirby and Don Beyer III.