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Meghan Marie O'Neil is a Research Scholar at the University of Michigan Law School and Research Investigator at the Population Studies Center at the University of Michigan. She is also a faculty expert at Poverty Solutions and affiliated with the Empirical Legal Studies Center, both at the University of Michigan.

Life

Neither of her parents graduated from college (her father was a high-school dropout). Her oldest brother (air force), father (navy), maternal grandfather (navy) and paternal grandfather (army) are wartime veterans. She is one of seven children. O'Neil earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Sociology from Southern Connecticut State University and a Masters Degree in Quantitative Methods of the Social Sciences from Columbia University. She then worked as a data scientist for two years, modeling demographic data on Wall Street with Merrill Lynch and then for the NYC Department of Social Services, Human Resource Administration before earning a Ph.D. in Sociology from the State University of New York at Albany.

She is the mother of two children.

Career

O'Neil taught statistics, research methods, and sociology of the family at SUNY and Fordham University before relocating to Ann Arbor, MI. She has been a visiting student in Sociology at the University of Michigan and a pre-doctoral social science research fellow at the University of Michigan Law School. She was a Women's International Leaders Fellow for the International House of NYC.

Research