Megan O’Donnell

Megan O’Donnell is assistant director for gender and a senior policy analyst at the Center for Global Development. She works on issues related to women’s economic empowerment, gender data and measurement, and development effectiveness. O’Donnell has also held positions at the ONE Campaign, the Inter-American Development Bank, the International Center for Research on Women, CARE USA, Banyan Global, and the Middle East Institute. She has a MA in Middle Eastern Studies from the University of Oxford and a BA in Politics and French from the University of Virginia.

"We cannot afford to unsee domestic abuse after COVID-19," the authors write. Here women wearing masks take part in a protest against gender violence in Santiago, Chile, on December 6, 2019. The photo is a striking image of women wearing red masks lined up, each person holding a hand over one eye of the person in front of them. REUTERS/Andres Martinez Casares
Gender

Violence in Times of Coronavirus—The Ugly Truth

by Amber Peterman, Megan O’Donnell, Karen Devries, Alessandra Guedes

We cannot afford to unsee domestic abuse after COVID-19—we need a world free from violence against women and children