Megan Pfeiffer is a national leader in criminal justice policy reform, partnership development, program management, and systems-level reentry strategy. Through her work, Megan has partnered with Governors’ and Mayors’ Offices, Departments of Corrections, workforce agencies, housing authorities, and public health systems to design statewide reentry strategies, launch governance structures, and strengthen cross-sector partnerships in Alabama, North Carolina, Minnesota and New York.

Megan has been invited to present her work nationally, including addressing the American Correctional Association and speaking at the North Carolina Reentry Conference, where she shared best practices on reentry strategy development, cross-sector collaboration to improve economic mobility and reduce people returning to homelessness, and family-centered justice reform.

She currently serves as Project Manager in the Corrections and Reentry Division at the Council of State Governments (CSG) Justice Center, where she leads state policy technical assistance for Reentry 2030, a multi-state initiative focused on transforming reentry systems through coordinated partnerships across state, local, and community organizations. She previously served as a Senior Policy Analyst within the division, supporting states in advancing evidence-based corrections and reentry programs and practices.

She has also provided technical assistance to jurisdictions through programs funded by the U.S. Department of Justice’s Bureau of Justice Assistance and Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention under the Second Chance Act, supporting improvements in family engagement practices, community supervision models, and trauma-informed reentry strategies.

Prior to joining the CSG Justice Center, Megan served as Program Director at Hour Children, where she managed a $1.8 million reentry and family engagement program at the Rose M. Singer Center (RMSC) on Rikers Island. She oversaw a multidisciplinary team delivering parenting education, family court advocacy, mental health counseling, visiting services, and reentry planning for incarcerated women and their families. In addition to her leadership at RMSC, Megan directed Hour Children’s Girls Empowerment Program, designing curricula for girls ages 8–15, and coordinated alternative-to-incarceration programming that diverted women from jail into community-based services.

Earlier in her career, Megan worked in direct service roles providing case management, trauma counseling, and court advocacy for survivors of gender-based violence and individuals involved in the criminal and family court systems.