Dr. Megan Davidson is the program director of the Stepping Up Initiative with the Council of State Governments (CSG) Justice Center. This national Initiative is focused on identifying, addressing, and reducing the overincarceration of persons with serious mental illness in county jails, involving a partnership between the CSG, the National Association of Counties and the American Psychiatric Foundation. In this role, Dr. Davidson oversees the provision of broad-based technical assistance deliverables to support counties with this work, guides statewide technical assistance centers that provide targeted resources and support, and cultivates and maintains stakeholder and funder partnerships to maintain and grow the Stepping Up Initiative across the country. She also leads a growing portfolio of work at CSG that is centered around advancing the field at the intersection of brain injury and the criminal justice system. Dr. Davidson has over 15 years of experience leading complex projects involving stakeholder and community engagement, research and evaluation, and technical assistance at the intersection of behavioral health and criminal justice through which she has supported many jurisdictions with the implementation and evaluation of systemic efforts intended to improve outcomes for individuals involved in those systems. She earned her PhD in public affairs with a concentration in criminal justice from the University of Central Florida.