Megan Mitchell’s career has been dedicated to expanding educational access and innovation. Currently the Senior Director of Universal Learning, Mitchell is spearheading the development and launch of new offerings from MIT Open Learning — a collection of online, digital, AI-enabled curricula centered on cross-disciplinary topic areas that prepare learners everywhere to impact global challenges. Universal AI, the first of these offerings, will launch in Fall 2025.

Mitchell’s previous roles at Open Learning have included Acting Director of the Jameel World Education Lab and Associate Director of Pathways for Talent. In these roles, she reached high potential learners who otherwise lack access to world-class education and career opportunities, leveraging MIT content and resources and enabling high-quality online and hybrid learning experiences for underserved learners including refugees, migrants, and first-generation low-income students from historically marginalized backgrounds.

Also at MIT, Mitchell was the Director of Fellowship and Student Programs for the Legatum Center for Development and Entrepreneurship and a Lecturer at the Sloan School of Management. In that capacity, she led the Center’s efforts to support students building impact-driven ventures across emerging markets. 

Prior to joining MIT in January of 2017, Mitchell managed UBS Americas’ Elevating Entrepreneurs initiative, a portfolio of philanthropic partnerships and programs focused on driving toward a more inclusive entrepreneurial landscape. This included Project Entrepreneur, a collaboration with Rent the Runway Foundation to increase the pipeline of women building economically impactful companies. Mitchell also previously oversaw co-curricular and experiential learning activities for Wharton Entrepreneurship, including the annual business plan competition and global internship program. She served as a member of the Venture Initiation Program leadership team and led development of the department’s venture development programs at the school’s San Francisco campus.