Meagan Phelan

Meagan Phelan is the Communications Director for the Science family of journals, where she oversees efforts to support accurate communication of Science family journal content among reporters worldwide. In this role, she’s been able to help innovate how science communication is done in response to key issues, including related to science integrity and science policy. Prior to joining AAAS in 2013, she served as a senior writer at a catastrophe risk modeling company in Boston, where she worked with more than 65 Ph.D.-level scientists and engineers. Previously, she was a senior writer and editor at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center.

Meagan holds a Bachelor’s degree in Biology and Spanish from Gettysburg College, and a Master’s degree in Science Writing from The Johns Hopkins University. In 2008, Meagan received a Fulbright Scholarship to work with researchers at the University of Valencia in Spain as they studied the cause of morbillivirus resurgence among dolphins in the Mediterranean.