Megan Low

Contra Costa County Public Defender’s Office

Megan Low has over 20 years of professional experience in mental health and defense-based social work. Currently, she is the Forensic Social Work Supervisor in the Contra Costa County Public Defender’s Youth Defense Unit, where she provides valuable insight and partnership to the attorneys and works to weave the skills of social work advocacy into the legal defense and support of system-involved youth. 

Prior to joining Contra Costa, she was a Senior Forensic Social Worker with the Alameda County Court Appointed Attorneys Program (CAAP), where she sat on the SB823 Sub-Committee and helped develop programming proposals for Alameda County’s SYTF. Megan has worked on over 30 juvenile transfer cases, and supported youth post-disposition at programs including camp, ranch, residential treatment, DJJ, and now SYTF. 

Megan has presented trainings on report writing, testifying, trauma-informed interviewing, and boundary setting, and most recently presented at the CYDC Roundtable in September 2025. She has been a member of PJDC since 2016, and is also a member of the National Association of Social Workers (NASW) and the Forensic Mental Health Association of California. She is certified by the National Organization of Forensic Social Work and is a member of the California Defense Social Workers (CDSW) Steering Committee. Megan is an Associate Clinical Social Worker. She earned her B.A. from UC Davis, and her MSW from San Francisco State.