Megan Desrosiers

 

Biography

Megan Desrosiers is the co-founder and Executive Director of One Hundred Miles, an organization with the mission to preserve, protect, and enhance Georgia’s 100-mile coast and elevate it as a recognized place of historical, cultural, and biological significance. Prior to founding One Hundred Miles, she was Assistant Director of the Coastal Conservation League.

Desrosiers spends her time working in local communities and on regional collaboration projects and serves on the leadership team of the Georgia Water Coalition. She is currently the chair of the Savannah River Clean Water Fund Advisory Board, and serves on the Steering Committee for the Dogwood Alliance’s Wetland Forests initiative. Locally, she serves on the Spaceport Camden Environmental Subcommittee.

Before becoming the founding executive director of One Hundred Miles, Megan spent 10 years at the Coastal Conservation League in South Carolina, where she was instrumental in efforts to conserve land in the Ashley River Historic Corridor and on Johns Island. She also worked to establish the organization’s first climate and energy and agriculture program agendas.

In addition to forming One Hundred Miles, Desrosiers worked with a team to start South Carolina’s first local food hub and collaborated with a group of diverse leaders to initiate Charleston County’s Greenbelt Program. She has also served on the founding boards of the South Carolina Outdoor Education Program and Charleston Moves, a bicycle / pedestrian advocacy organization.

Education

Master of Arts in Environmental Studies, Brown University
Bachelor of Science in Environmental Studies, Allegheny College