Penelope has spent her career at the intersections of social investment, community investment, art and culture, and the health of communities. For the past several years, she has worked with others in cooperative, collaborative, distributed leadership, and solidarity models.She works with social change movement builders and organizations across sectors including health, arts and culture, and regenerative capital. Recent and current engagements include roles as Impact Advisor to One Nation One Project, Strategic Advisor to The Lewis Prize for Music, Organization and Strategic advisor to The Guild of Future Architects. From 2020-2022 she was the Chief of Strategy for Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. Among many initiatives she guided were the Artist-Led Giving Circle and the Guaranteed Income Pilot for Artists.

Megan’s 18+ year career has focused on economic systems change, where she’s worked with internationally and nationally pioneering teams to advance the field of impact investing. This includes but is not limited to SOCAP, Impact Hub, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Institute for the Future, The Enterprise Center, and more on initiatives ranging from the largest global impact investing conference to an equity growth fund for Black and Brown businesses. She was most recently the Director of Strategy for ImpactPHL, a field builder cultivating Greater Philadelphia's impact investing community, where she led and managed strategy on initiatives such as Impact Investment Pathways and Total Impact Summit. She co-authored the paper, Moving Minds & Money to Transform Arts & Culture Investment.