Before rising to her present role as head of school at The Congressional Schools of Virginia. Ms. Fegan spent many years raising awareness about poverty and cultivating her passion for education. Upon graduating from Georgetown University. Ms. Fegan traveled to Central America. where she worked with the Alliance for Progress to aid indigenous populations. Impassioned by this experience. Ms. Fegan returned to the Washington. DC area. where she developed programs through the Office of Economic Opportunity (OEO) to support migrant laborers. Ms. Fegan then applied the skills she had developed at OEO to the District of Columbia. helping to establish the first inner city HMO.