Meghan McDonough

Meghan McDonough is a filmmaker and journalist who directs and edits documentary shorts and series to better understand our world. She recently received the Aesthetica Film Festival/Audible Listening Pitch to fund her archival-driven documentary short, Old Lesbians. “A Question of Sex,” her documentary series for Scientific American about how gender biases skew science, won a 2023 Telly Award and was nominated for the 2023 GLAAD Media Awards. After studying Film and Media Studies at Amherst College, Meghan received the Davis Foundation Projects for Peace Award to document the Ni Una Menos movement for gender equality in Argentina. Following stints at a news outlet in Buenos Aires and a documentary production company in Boston, she was selected for the Atlantic Media Editorial Fellowship in New York and subsequently promoted to staff video journalist on an award-winning team at Quartz. Afterwards, she worked at NBC to produce and edit innovative video stories in collaboration with local stations across the country. Her freelance work has since appeared in Thomson Reuters Foundation, FiveThirtyEight, The Washington Post, The Guardian, and Atlas Obscura, and has been supported by the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting and the Economic Hardship Reporting Project. Meghan speaks English and Spanish.