As the Executive Director of the Human Rights Data Analysis Group, Megan Price drives the organization’s overarching strategy, leads scientific projects, and presents HRDAG’s work to diverse audiences. Her scientific work includes analyzing documents from the National Police Archive in Guatemala and contributing analyses submitted as evidence in multiple court cases in Guatemala. Her work in Syria includes collaborating with the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner of Human Rights (OHCHR) and Amnesty International on several analyses of conflict-related deaths in that country. She also contributes to work examining potential racial disparities in the US criminal legal system, particularly as it pertains to the Racial Justice Act in California.

Megan is a Research Fellow at the Carnegie Mellon University Center for Human Rights Science, the Human Rights Editor for the Statistical Journal of the International Association for Official Statistics (IAOS), and on the editorial board of Significance Magazine. She also serves on the board of directors for Coda Media. In 2022 she was named a Fellow in the American Statistical Association.

Megan earned her doctorate in biostatistics and a Certificate in Human Rights from the Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University. She also holds a master of science degree and bachelor of science degree in Statistics from Case Western Reserve University.

From 2013 through 2015, Megan was the Director of Research at HRDAG; on December 1, 2015, she became Executive Director.