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*[[Gulf Coast Zoological Society]], board member
*[[Communities in Schools of Northwest Florida]], board member
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| date_of_birth =[[1973]]
| place_of_birth =Durham, NCNorth Carolina
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| occupation =Science education coordinator, politicianExecutive Director<br/>[[Pensacola MESS Hall]]
| religion =[[First United Methodist Church|Methodist]]
| spouse =[[Jerry Pratt]]
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'''Megan Benson Pratt''' (b. [[1973]]) is an educational outreach the executive director of the [[Pensacola MESS Hall]]. She formerly was the science education coordinator with at the [[Institute for Human and Machine Cognition]] and a current candidate for an At-Large member of the [[Pensacola City Council]] At-Large seat vacated by [[Mike Wiggins]]. She is the daughter of [[Lois Benson]] and younger sister of [[Holly Benson]].
A native of Durham, North Carolina, Megan moved with her family to Pensacola in 1976. After graduating from [[Washington High School]] in 1990, she received a bachelor's of science degree from M.I.T. in 1993, an M.A. in chemistry from Harvard in 1995 and her Ph.D. in neurobiology from Harvard in 1999, then was a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard Medical School in 2000. In 2002 she returned to Pensacola and began working at the [[Institute for Human and Machine Cognition]] (IHMC), where her husband [[Jerry Pratt]] is also a robotics researcher. She has spearheaded the IHMC's [[Science Saturdays]] program and, with her sister Holly, helped create the [[I LOVE Science]] program for 5th graders in the [[Escambia County School District|Escambia]] and [[Santa Rosa County School District]]s. In 2012 she and her husband brought together a group of Pensacolians to found the [[Pensacola MESS Hall]], a hands on science museum in downtown Pensacola.
==Community involvement==
*Pensacola [[Charter Review Commission]]
*Former volunteer, [[Spencer Bibbs Elementary School|Spencer Bibbs]], [[Weis Elementary School|Weis]] and [[Brentwood Elementary School]]s, volunteer
*[[WSRE-TV]] PBS, board member
*[[Leadership Pensacola]] Class of 2005
*[[Pensacola Young Professionals]], member
*[[Pensacola City Council]], vice-president, chair of the CRA*former member of [[Community Maritime Park Associates]]
==External links & references==
*[http://www.votemegan2008.com/ VoteMegan2008.com] – campaign website
*[http://www.ihmc.us/users/user.php?UserID=mpratt IHMC profile]
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