Katie Ann Meyler (born 1982) is an American activist who is the founder of the More Than Me Foundation, an organization that works to educate young women in Liberia in the midst of the West African Ebola virus epidemic.
[2] Her organization received a grant for $1 million from J.P. Morgan Chase that was used to establish the More Than Me Academy,[3] which opened in 2013 as the nation's only school for girls that did not charge tuition, with the mission serve more than 100 at-risk young women in West Point a neighborhood in the Liberian capital of Monrovia that is one of the city's most densely populated slums.
She helped organize caregivers in West Point, providing boots and payments to health workers serving the area, and ultimately obtaining donations to acquire an ambulance.
[7] In October 2018, Meyler stepped down from her position as CEO of More Than Me, as a result a report published by Time and ProPublica that found her Liberian co-founder Macintosh Johnson had raped girls attending the foundation's academy.
[13] The report strongly indicated that Meyler was involved in an attempted coverup of rape allegations, hiring a PR specialist to issue a press release which deleted or edited blog posts documenting Johnson's role in founding the organization.
[14][15] In April 2019, Meyler permanently resigned from her post using her personal Facebook profile to announce her decision to step down as CEO of MTM, in the wake of the conclusions of an independent panel, which concluded that the charity missed opportunities to prevent the rape of its students.