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Megan C. McCoy, PhD, MSS, MLSP (she/her/hers)

Assistant Professor
Northern Arizona University
Northern Arizona University, Arizona, United States

Megan C. McCoy (she/her/hers) is an Assistant Professor of Social Work at Northern Arizona University. She received her Ph.D. in Social Work from the Bryn Mawr College Graduate School of Social Work and Social Research in Bryn Mawr, PA where she also earned Master’s degrees in Social Service (MSS) and Law & Social Policy (MLSP). She brings 22 years of direct practice, non-profit management, and community-based research experience in settings serving older adults to her role. Through both teaching and research, Dr. McCoy addresses the impact of historical institutionalized silences in later life and advances anti-racist and anti-ageist social work practice. Dr. McCoy’s scholarship focuses on the intersection of aging with health equity for LGBTQ+ older adults and the potential for community-based settings to function as identity-affirming spaces which promote resilience. Her current research is focused on community-based participatory approaches to health equity in later life, with emphasis on LGBTQ2S+ and rural communities. Recent projects include serving as co-PI for the Northern Arizona Memory Study, co-creator of the AZALEA Project (https://nau.edu/sherc/fairness-first-blog/fairness-first-blog-dr-megan-mccoy-tena-alonzo/), a community-based participatory approach to building LGBTQ2S+ aging equity in Arizona, and PI for a recently completed policy analysis of LGBTQ+ inclusion in state plans on aging.

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