Megan Carlson is a social justice advocate and educator in Philadelphia. She is a recent transplant from Chicago (via Milwaukee), where she graduated from the University of Chicago in 2010. When not lesson planning, she enjoys writing about the issues for which she is passionate: education, politics, feminism, healthcare, and criminal and juvenile justice (with the occasional celebrity gossip, thrown in for good measure). You can read her work at www.carlsonsalon.blogspot.com.