Dr. Megan Jordan is a sociologist and artist who conducts research on artistic activism and activists’ experiences in social movements. Megan is a Presidential Postdoctoral Scholar of Arts Policy at The Ohio State University, where she is also a W.K. Kellogg Foundation research fellow for engaging principles of diversity, equity, and inclusion in her research. Presently, Megan is conducting research in three major areas. First, expanding from her dissertation on activist burnout and retention, Megan is performing a longitudinal study of how activists balance their social justice missions in their careers. Second, as part of a larger study on burnout and retention, Megan is examining the lived experiences of artist activists creatively constructing and maneuvering their careers to serve social justice missions. Megan is working to make apparent the entrepreneurial characteristics required of artist activists to do their work. Her research makes the case to consider artist activism as a form of arts entrepreneurship. In this study, Megan is cultivating new understandings of artist activists’ careers during an especially contentious, divisive, and unsettled period in the United States—the Trump Era, Covid-19 Pandemic, and new heights of various social movements. Third, Megan conducts community engaged research on processes within arts organizations striving for racial equity. She serves on boards and community panels to assist arts organizations in improving their community engagement and diversity-equity programming in meaningful ways. Megan uses her artistic practice as another avenue to share her research in more emotive, accessible ways to bridge build across diverse audiences.