Megan E. Hutchinson, M.Ed., is a Student Success Specialist in the Smeal College of Business at Penn State University. She is also the co-founder of the F.L.Y. Movement (Fuel. Love. You.). They seek to provide educational workshops to cultivate safe spaces for athletic teams to discuss body image, sport and performance. Their mission is to create transparency in the way you think and talk about body image and eating disorders in athletics.

Hutchinson began her time at Penn State as a Division 1 student-athlete on the track and field team. She was on the Outdoor Big Ten Championship team in 2008. She was a Big Ten Medalist in the Distance Medley Relay, a Big Ten Scorer in the 800 meters, a Regional qualifier in the 800 meters, and a member of the Penn State school record-setting Distance Medley Relay team in 2007.

Hutchinson has worked in academic advising since her return to the university in 2012. Along with advising undergraduate students she has been a part of many wellness efforts on campus such as: The Body Project, a dissonance-based body acceptance intervention program & Stand For State, Penn State’s bystander intervention program focusing on sexual and relationship violence, mental health concerns, acts of bias, and risky drinking and drug use. She has also collaborated with multiple stake-holders across campus and presented at the DUS Advising Conference on Mental Health on College Campuses.

She completed the Eating Disorders Institute Graduate Certificate from Plymouth State University in NH in Fall 2021. She is pursuing her MPH in Community Health Sciences from Tulane University.

Education

M ED, The Pennsylvania State University, 2011