Megan McLoughlin is an award-winning disability advocate, equestrian, keynote speaker and mother of two who has built a reputation for turning adversity into action… usually with a healthy dose of humour along the way.
Named South Australia’s Local Hero in the Australian of the Year Awards, Megan has survived blindness, organ failure, transplants, cancer diagnoses and enough hospital appointments to qualify for honorary parking at most medical centres. Rather than slowing down, she has used her experiences to advocate for disability inclusion, rural health and organ donation awareness.
Megan is the founder of Herd of Hope, which she famously launched by taking a herd of Northern Territory cattle onto Australia’s most iconic beach, Bondi, proving that if you’re going to start a movement, you may as well do it with sand between your toes and confused city folk in the background.
She has received both the SA Health Innovation Award (2022) and the Community Rural Mental Health Award (2020) for rural health programs she designed and implemented. She also participated in a world-first study involving double transplant recipients and pregnancy, helping improve opportunities for more women post-transplant to safely become mothers.
Through public speaking, equestrian sport and advocacy, Megan challenges perceptions around disability and resilience, proving that limitations are often just society’s imagination running out before hers does.
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