Meghan Groome, PhD,
Chief Executive Officer

Favorite veggie: Carrots

Meg joins Teens for Food Justice from the New York Academy of Sciences, where she served as Senior Vice President, managing a portfolio of PreK-12, higher education, and lifelong learning for students, scientists, and teachers around the world. With a focus on STEAM and Civics, she led programming in hundreds of schools and community-based organizations across New York City and global programming in over one hundred countries. At the Academy, her work focused on food justice through city-wide urban farming projects in Kigali, Rwanda, local partnerships with groups like the Billion Oyster Project, and numerous curricular and research projects with the Academy’s Nutrition Institute. She served as principal investigator and Co-Investigator on numerous National Science Foundation grants focused on scaling successful experiential learning programs to new locations.

Previously, she was at the School of the New York Times and has held positions in education, policy, and government relations at the American Museum of Natural History, NYC FIRST, and the National Governors Association. She graduated from Colorado College, where she majored in biology and theater, and earned her PhD in science education from Teachers College, Columbia University. She is a certified science teacher. Meg lives in Brooklyn with her family, sings with the Brooklyn Women’s Chorus, and is a volunteer at the Camp Friendship food pantry.