Meghan McCorkell is the Executive Director of Live Baltimore, a non-profit organization focused on growing Baltimore’s economy by attracting and retaining residents and supporting healthy housing markets. She joined the organization in February of 2025. Prior to that, she served as the Chief of Marketing, Communications, and Strategy at the Enoch Pratt Free Library. As an executive at the Pratt, she led the future vision of the organization by overseeing the library’s 5-year strategic plan. She helped create and elevate the Pratt’s nationally-recognized Marketing & Communications team, which was named Library Journal’s Marketer of the Year in 2023. As the lead spokesperson for the 22-branch system, McCorkell was instrumental in the Pratt being honored as one of the Nicest Places in America by Good Morning America and Reader’s Digest, and she helped propel the library to record-high usage.
Prior to joining the library in 2017, McCorkell was an Emmy-award winning television news reporter. She was recognized for her work covering the aftermath of the Haitian earthquake by the Associated Press. She worked as a general assignment reporter in markets across the country and as a Washington correspondent covering Capitol Hill and the White House. She finished her TV career at WJZ-TV, where she was recognized as Baltimore City Paper’s TV Journalist of the Year.
Originally from the Jersey Shore, McCorkell is proud to call Baltimore City home. She graduated with honors from Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C.