Megan Mericle is a writer, researcher, photographer, communications professional and budding herbalist and small-scale organic agriculture enthusiast who lives and works in Tiohtià:ke/Mooniyang/Montréal. In 2007 Megan graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Art, with a minor in Art History and Museum Studies from the University of Lethbridge, Alberta. In 2013 she earned a Master of Arts degree in Art History and Communication Studies in the Department of Art History and Communication Studies at McGill University, Montréal, and continued to study for a French certificate at "Université du Québec à Montréal, Faculté de communication, École de langues.
From 2009 to 2015, Mericle worked as a photographer mainly in music and live performance documentation at various festivals and for bands of friends. From 2013 to 2020 she worked as a grant writer, researcher, web designer, and studio and administrative assistant (and more) for artists including Nadia Myre, Michael Flomen and Nadine Faraj and others. She holds significant experience in the field of communications, and has refined her skills in administration, visitor services, negotiations, grant-writing, research, event and volunteer coordination, archiving and collections, and public outreach and programming. Her experiences at the Galt Museum & Archives, the Southern Alberta Art Gallery and the Concordia Greenhouse Project have deepened her knowledge of and capacity to strategically support and serve non-profits and a range of community projects. At the Greenhouse she increased media coverage for events including DIY sustainable workshops, concerts, performances, parties, and plant sales. She organized engaging and meaningful workshops with various facilitators, and created successful outreach and communications strategies to support students, volunteers, interns, artists and the wider sustainability community of Montréal.
Megan has also served as Secretary on the Board of Directors at the non-profit articule, artist-run centre in Montréal from 2017-2018. From 2014-2020 and 2024 to the present she has volunteered delivering Meals-on-Wheels and providing occasional volunteer photography services for Santropol Roulant, an organization that combats food insecurity. Santropol Roulant improves access to local sustainable food, resources and inter-generational community-building between youth and adult volunteers and the seniors, non-autonomous and disabled clients that are served and who serve alongside one another in solidarity.
In the 2024 growing season she joyfully completed the City Herbal Apprenticeship Program with the Concordia Greenhouse at the Loyola campus food forest, and the Urban Agriculture Program with Coop CultivAction in Senneville, with whom she will study with again under nico schutte for their upcoming Urban Foraging Course in May and June 2025. Also in 2025 she is participating in another practical herbal introductory program with École Setsuko under Monica Giacomin in and around Montréal, and cannot wait to get back in the gardens and forests to learn, grow and share with the community this season.
CERTIFICATIONS AND TRAINING
-Herbology 1: Introduction to Herbology, École Setsuko, Montréal: May - June 2025 & September 2025.
-Urban Foraging Course, Coop CultivAction, Montréal and surrounding area: May - June 2025.
-Certificat, L’École d’été sur l’agriculture urbaine et de l’alimentation durable, Université du Québec à Montréal, Coeur des sciences, Montréal: 11 - 15 août 2025 (conférence).
-Certificate, City Herbal Apprenticeship Program, Concordia Greenhouse, Montréal: - June - October 2024.
-Certificate, Urban Agriculture Program, Coop CultivAction, Senneville, QC - June - November 2024.
-Execuserv plus - Business Program for New Entrepreneurs, Lethbridge, AB - January - June 2021.
-First Aid 8H / CPR AED Adult, Child, Infant, AP 1.5H certification, Concordia University - Valid: March 16, 2019 - March 16, 2022 (expired).
-Naloxone training, session led by Richard Davy of the McGill School of Social Work: July 8, 2019.
-CERT (Community Emergency Response Team) training - Concordia University Security Services: February 7, 2019.
-Consensus decision-making and Conflict Resolution workshop, led by Eddie Jude Hareven, conflict resolution and management services: January 2019.
-Anti-oppression workshop, led by Kama La Mackerel at articule, artist-run centre: March 3, 2018.
-Major gift fundraiser workshop designed for the Board of Directors at articule: “Fundraising and Major Gifts: The Annual Campaign” (“Collecte de fonds et les dons majeurs: la campaign annuelle”) by Marie Archambault, Consultant and Trainer in Fundraising, and former Director of Development for the Foundation of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Montréal: February 20, 2018.