Executive Director, Codman Academy Charter Public School

Meg Campbell is founder and Executive Director of Codman Academy Charter Public School, the seven-year-old charter school serving student in grades 9-12.

Campbell and fellow Dorchester resident, Bill Walczak (Barr Fellow Class of 2007), got to know each other working on a 1985 campaign to fight billboards advertising tobacco and alcohol near neighborhood schools. The campaign proved successful, and the two became friends. In 2000, when Campbell heard Mr. Walczak was looking to expand the health center's youth programs, the activist duo had found a new cause. Codman Academy has an ongoing relationship with Codman Square Health Center.

She is former Executive Director of Expeditionary Learning Outward Bound where she helped found four schools. Campbell was also a lecturer at Harvard Graduate School of Education. She is the author of Solo Crossing (Midmarch Arts Press, 1999) and an editor of Split Verse: Poems to Heal Your Heart (Midmarch Arts Press, 2000), and Literacy All Day Long (Kendall Hunt, 2000).

A graduate of Harvard-Radcliffe and Wheelock Graduate School of Education, Meg holds a C.A.S. from Harvard Graduate School of Education. She is a founding board member of the Boston Women's Heritage Trail. Meg has lived in Dorchester, where she raised two daughters, for more than twenty years. She holds Massachusetts certification as a high school principal and superintendent.