
Meagan Taylor, J.D.
Ex-Officio Board Member
Meagan Taylor is a lifelong advocate for criminal justice reform, a calling that has led her to serve as the Executive Director of the Oklahoma County Diversion Hub. After graduating from the Oklahoma City University School of Law, she began her legal career as an Assistant District Attorney. Her experience litigating misdemeanor, general felony, and diversion court cases deepened her passion for alternatives to incarceration that prioritize community and family restoration.
Meagan’s dedication to transforming systemic inequities inspired her to join a team at the Arnall Family Foundation that developed and piloted a one-stop shop for diversion services in Oklahoma County. Launched in 2020, Diversion Hub provides life-stabilizing resources and services for justice-involved individuals. Meagan guided a team of case managers and justice navigators who provided comprehensive services and trauma-informed care to those impacted by the criminal legal system.
Under Meagan’s leadership as the Executive Director, Diversion Hub has expanded its programs to include Misdemeanor Diversion Program, Stand Up Initiative, DIRECT, Court-Ordered Outpatient Program, Employment Navigation Team, SOAR Initiative, and case management for OK County Treatment Courts. She is devoted to advancing community equity by building a more just and humane criminal legal system.eagan Taylor serves as executive director of Diversion Hub. After graduating from Oklahoma City University School of Law in 2015, she immediately started her legal career as an assistant district attorney in Oklahoma County. While there she spent her time in misdemeanor, general felony, and diversion courts where her enthusiasm for the diversion programs and diverting individuals and families away from the criminal legal system grew.
Meagan followed her passion for diverting people away from the criminal legal system and finding effective and equitable community-based alternatives by joining the Arnall Family Foundation where she worked within Criminal Justice Reform team. During her time at the Arnall Family Foundation, she led a team of case managers out of the Oklahoma County Public Defender’s office where they worked on various criminal justice reform initiatives that had been strategically identified as gaps in the criminal legal system. She was instrumental in assisting with the development of the Diversion Hub and transitioned over as the Director of Programs of the Diversion Hub and eventually as executive director where she has led the successful expansion into multiple counties in Oklahoma and ongoing initiatives to address gaps for vulnerable justice-involved people in the areas Diversion Hub serves. Meagan continues to fight for equity in the criminal legal system by creating effective connections to stabilizing resources and services for those impacted by the system in Oklahoma.