Meghan holds a Master of Architecture degree from University of Michigan and a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of Massachusetts.  She is the Owner and President of MW Architecture, PC, a private architectural practice, and the Founder and President of Axis Mundi, Inc. a non-profit design/build educational organization focusing on the use of natural and recycled materials. Axis Mundi emphasizes a multi-tiered mentoring process, whereby youth are mentored by college students, who are mentored by recent graduates, who are mentored by mid-career professionals, who are mentored by their ìeldersî who have spent 20 years or more in their areas of expertise.  She has taught architectural design as an adjunct faculty member at the schools of architecture at Howard University and the Catholic University of America and writing on architecture at the University of Michigan, as a Resident Fellow in the Alice Lloyd Scholars Program.  Her built work includes many private residential projects, for clients who are conscious of using space efficiently, and building with environmentally sustainable materials and methods. She balances her private work with a contingent of projects for non-profit organizations, including schools, arts centers, transitional living programs, and offices, where she maximizes creativity to compensate for tight budgets.  In addition to her work in the US, Meghan spends a lot of time working on a creative, urban, design/build effort to improve infrastructure in Salvador, Brazil.  She takes students from all over the world each year to contribute and make a small but creatively crafted improvement. The course is more of an exchange of cultures, knowledge and ideas, rather than a charitable endeavor.  Students bring their architectural skills in exchange for learning the history, cultural and artistic traditions of the Afro-Brazilian culture of Bahia.