Dr. Megan Karns Garvy has more than twenty years of experience as an educator leader at the university, community college, and public-school levels. As founder and Executive Director of Level Up Education Pathways Consulting, she focuses on an integrated approach between local education agencies and institutes of higher learning to improve student access to earned credit through dual enrollments, concurrent enrollments, and prior learning assessment. Recently, she worked with the Center for the Future of Arizona to develop a suite of open-source materials that may be used in K-12 and higher education to improve early college strategy.

Megan's work evolved from classroom teacher to professional development leader where she trained high school educators in structured English immersion techniques and advanced dual language immersion programs, which led to the Seal of Biliteracy in Arizona. Megan was also an early adopter of online education which led her to instructional design work in higher education and diversified modalities for facilitating professional learning opportunities for others. Currently, Megan is residential faculty at Mesa Community College where her full-time responsibilities include faculty development and supporting innovative academic programs to advance academic achievement for all learners.

As the former director of three federal grants, Megan is seasoned with grant writing, reporting, multi-year budgets, and high impact practices for student success. Complementary to grant administration, Megan has extensive knowledge of assessment and accreditation.  She applies her research and assessment work to her role at Arizona State University where she teaches in the Mary Lou Fulton College for Teaching and Learning Innovation Leadership and Innovation Doctoral Program.