Civic & Social Organization - Nashville, Tennessee, United States
Megan Barry won election to the Metro Council as a member at-large in 2007, and was re-elected in 2011 to a second four-year term.Megan plays active leadership roles in civic and community activities that range from schools and neighborhoods to arts and politics. She serves on the boards of the Center for Nonprofit Management, the YWCA, and the Belcourt Theatre, and has also served on the board of the Nashville Rep. She is an advisory board member for the Tennessee Immigrant and Refugee Rights Coalition and the New Leaders Council, and she sits on the Ethics Advisory Board for Belmont University's Jack C. Massey College of Business. She is a past participant in Leadership Nashville and Leadership Music.Professionally, Megan has almost two decades of experience as a corporate executive, including several years developing and managing ethics programs for a global telecommunications firm, and most recently in the role of ethics and compliance officer for Premier, Inc., a healthcare company. She has also worked as an independent consultant to firms on issues dealing with business ethics and corporate social responsibility. She has taught courses in business ethics, leadership, and human resources as an adjunct faculty member at Belmont University and Vanderbilt University.Born in California while her father was stationed at El Toro Marine Corps base, Megan grew up in Overland Park, Kansas. She graduated from Notre Dame de Sion, a Catholic girls high school in Kansas City, and she received her Bachelor's degree in elementary education from Baker University. Megan has been in Nashville since 1991, when she moved here to attend Vanderbilt University. She received her MBA from Vanderbilt's Owen School in 1993.She is married to Bruce Barry, a professor of organization studies at Vanderbilt. Their son, Max, is a sophomore in college, and they share their home with two rescue dogs, Hank and Boris.
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