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Guest Speaker

Meag-gan O’Reilly

CEO & Co-Founder of Inherent Value Psychology INC
(She/Her)

Dr. Meag-gan O’Reilly, (she/her) is a Staff Psychologist at Stanford University’s Counseling and Psychological Services (CAPS) and Adjunct Faculty in the Stanford School of Medicine. While completing her Post-Doctoral Fellowship at CAPS, Dr. O’Reilly created the first satellite clinic for Black undergraduate and graduate students across the African Diaspora. She currently serves a Program Coordinator for Outreach, Equity, and Inclusion. In this role, Dr. O’Reilly co-created the Outreach and Social Justice Seminar in 2016 with the goal of training the next generation of culturally conscious and justice-oriented clinicians.

Outside of Stanford, Dr. O’Reilly is the Co-Founder and CEO of Inherent Value Psychology INC., her private practice that provides DEI consulting, workshops, trainings, and international speaking engagements. Dr. O’Reilly is a DEI consultant for companies including Google, LYRA Health, and The United Negro College Fund’s STEM Scholar Program that supports Black college students nationwide to navigate underrepresentation and discrimination in STEM fields. She also serves as the lead clinician in a partnership with Google to provide therapeutic spaces called The Gathering Space for Black Google Employees in response to the murder of George Floyd and the chronic trauma, and grief, in the Black community. Her TEDx talk: Enough is Enough: The Power of Your Inherent Value, can be seen on YouTube and is a helpful reminder of unconditional self-worth and that our lives matter to the world.