Megan Kirkeby is the Deputy Director of Housing Policy Development at HCD. Previously, she served as Assistant Deputy Director of Fair Housing from 2018 to 2020 and was a Senior Policy Research Specialist from 2015 to 2018.
Before coming to HCD, Kirkeby held several positions at the California Housing Partnership from 2012 to 2015, including Policy Director and Sustainable Housing Policy Manager. Kirkeby was a Community Equity Intern at PolicyLink in 2011, analyzing infrastructure disparities in low-income unincorporated communities of color. She was also the Policy Associate at the Non-Profit Housing Association of Northern California from 2008 to 2010.
Kirkeby earned a Master of Public Policy degree from the University of California, Los Angeles, with a concentration in Urban and Regional Planning and an undergraduate degree from the University of California, Santa Cruz in Global Economics.