Megan Andros

Program Director for Veterans at Heinz Endowments

Megan Andros is a senior program officer at The Heinz Endowments and is responsible for the foundation’s Veterans and Military Families Initiative. Focusing on Pittsburgh and western Pennsylvania, the initiative aims to improve the reintegration of an estimated 5,200 veterans and their family members who move to the region each year by advancing strategies in five key areas: navigation of services, full employment, leadership, perception change and policy change.

Megan, a veteran of Operation Iraqi Freedom, served for five years as an ordnance officer in the Army’s 1st Cavalry Division. She graduated from the United States Military Academy at West Point in 2006 with a Bachelor of Science in international law and systems engineering, and completed a Master of Public Management from Carnegie Mellon University’s Heinz College in 2018.

Megan is a Veteran Fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution, which seeks to bring greater innovation, awareness, action, and implementation to veteran policy.

Timeline

  • Program Director for Veterans

    Current role

  • Senior Program Officer, Veterans