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Biography
Megan R. Westmore, PhD, LMSW (she/her) is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Social Work, primarily teaching in the BSSW program. Megan joined the MSU Denver team in fall 2025, and she is thrilled to have the opportunity to work with students embarking on their social work careers. She seeks to train the next generation of social work practitioners in taking an intersectional approach to services that recognizes the strengths and needs of clients. She is also passionate about incorporating open educational resources and anti-oppressive practices into her classroom.
Megan researches access to intimate partner and sexual violence prevention and healing services for individuals with intellectual and/or developmental disabilities (IDD), and how such access impacts victimization. She is particularly interested in violence primary prevention programs such as healthy relationship and safer sexuality education. She utilizes mixed methods and social network analysis in her research, which allows her to answer important questions about victimization rates and prevention intervention effectiveness while also centering the voices of individuals with disabilities themselves.
Megan received her PhD in social work from the University of Texas at Arlington, and her Master of Science in Social Work degree with a concentration in Community and Administrative Leadership from the University of Texas at Austin. She additionally holds a BSW and a bachelor’s degree in Spanish from UT Austin. She is a licensed social worker in the state of Colorado.
After completing her MSSW, Megan spent seven years in social work practice focusing on two primary areas: policy advocacy for people with IDD, and prevention and healing services related to sexual violence. During this time, she developed an interest in primary prevention of violence against individuals with disabilities and co-authored a healthy relationship and safer sexuality curriculum for young adults with IDD entitled My Rights My Life, published in 2022.