Megan Matson has the somewhat frenetic bio of someone who starts and/or makes things happen.

Most recently, Megan got the pro-democracy media platform ResoluteSquare.com capitalized and launched, where you can find writings, podcasts and streaming shows anchored by Rick Wilson, Stuart Stevens et al, against the autocratic movement that is today’s GOP.

As board lead at The Lincoln Project from late 2021, Megan did intensive organizational work including the staffing and launch of TheUnion.us and the restructuring of the Lincoln Democracy Institute. In 2020, she trained a team to co-launch the SeeSay2020 election incidents heat map on ESRI’s ArcGIS with Democracy Labs' Deepak Puri. In late 2018, Megan went to Texas and worked for the Field Team on Beto's Senate race. Over that same stretch of years, as deeply active board members, Megan and her equity partner Peter Luchetti backed, grew and sold Heila Technologies, a breakthrough clean energy microgrid controller; and are now backing and growing Scepter Air, a geotech climate emissions company now flying stratospheric balloons over the Permian detecting methane plumes. The two partners also formed, capitalized and now run the first labor-owned P3 in the country since 2012, a water-and-wastewater utility serving 110,000 in Southern California. There Megan headed up a $32M progressive-design-build wastewater plant construction, a waste-based clean energy microgrid plan, and was a presenter and convener on P3 for President Obama’s Build America initiatives in D.C.

Megan first came to infrastructure (energy, water, climate) through political organizing, when the grassroots group she started (Mainstreet Moms) helped launch California’s first CCA (Marin Clean Energy). This local utility model replicated and now serves 15 million California ratepayers. Megan was also field director on the defeat of PG&E’s $65M anti-CCA statewide ballot initiative Prop 16, and then co-launched LEAN Energy, a trade group supporting the formation of CCAs nationally today.

Megan is an English Major from Yale, and lives in Bolinas, California with her family and too many animals. Like most everyone, Megan can be found writing sporadically on Substack, at https://meganmatson.substack.com/

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Resolute Square is an ambitious effort to rethink how the media fights against autocracy beyond the 2024 presidential race. Our mission is to expose, inspire, inform, lead, and connect — and to provide the tools to fight the poison peddlers trying to destroy our democracy. We are a growing community of creators, thinkers, strategists, and activists committed to taking on the autocrats and their right-wing media mouthpieces to defend democracy. That will take the form of podcasts, streaming programming, newsletters, articles, town halls, public and virtual community gatherings, and strategy calls with people who have led the biggest campaigns - and won.

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