Mehgan Lee, BSN, RN
Board Member
Mehgan is a nurse in long-term recovery who joined the Board of the Minnesota Nurses Peer Support Network (NPSN) in 2026. She serves on NPSN’s Education and Outreach Committee and is also a monthly meeting convener.
Mehgan manages external healthcare-related communications for the State of Minnesota’s Medicaid and MinnesotaCare programs, which provide access to healthcare for about 1.3 million low-income people in the state who can’t afford health insurance. Before that, she worked in communications for the City of Minneapolis, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota, and the Motion Picture Association of America. She also worked on campaigns for the Iowa Speaker of the House in 2008 and previously managed a small newsroom as news editor of a community newspaper. Mehgan’s career began as an RN on a nephrology unit at St. Mary’s Hospital in Rochester, MN.
Mehgan has her bachelor’s degree in nursing from Saint Catherine University as well as a bachelor’s degree in journalism from the University of Minnesota. She is a member of the Sigma Theta Tau nursing honor society and also volunteers as a sexual assault advocate and medical advocate with the Sexual Violence Center. Mehgan is passionate about researching and advancing evidence-based practices to treat substance use disorder.
Mehgan is a nurse in long-term recovery who joined the Board of the Minnesota Nurses Peer Support Network (NPSN) in 2026. She serves on NPSN’s Education and Outreach Committee and is also a monthly meeting convener.
Mehgan manages external healthcare-related communications for the State of Minnesota’s Medicaid and MinnesotaCare programs, which provide access to healthcare for about 1.3 million low-income people in the state who can’t afford health insurance. Before that, she worked in communications for the City of Minneapolis, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota, and the Motion Picture Association of America. She also worked on campaigns for the Iowa Speaker of the House in 2008 and previously managed a small newsroom as news editor of a community newspaper. Mehgan’s career began as an RN on a nephrology unit at St. Mary’s Hospital in Rochester, MN.
Mehgan has her bachelor’s degree in nursing from Saint Catherine University as well as a bachelor’s degree in journalism from the University of Minnesota. She is a member of the Sigma Theta Tau nursing honor society and also volunteers as a sexual assault advocate and medical advocate with the Sexual Violence Center. Mehgan is passionate about researching and advancing evidence-based practices to treat substance use disorder.