Megan: From Girl Scout to State Senator, A Lifetime of Leadership

August 26, 2026

On National Women’s Equality Day, we’re celebrating the women and girls who use their voices, talents, and leadership to make their communities stronger.

For Nebraska State Senator and entrepreneur Megan Hunt, that spirit of leadership started long before public service. It started in Girl Scouts.

Megan comes from three generations of Girl Scouts. Growing up in Blair, Nebraska, she learned from the women who led her that girls are capable, resourceful, and responsible for using their strengths to make their communities better. Her own daughter later became a Girl Scout, continuing that family legacy.

Girl Scouts gave Megan opportunities to put those lessons into practice. Selling cookies became some of her earliest entrepreneurial training, teaching her how to make the ask, talk to people, manage money, and keep going when things didn't come easily.

Her troop also opened her eyes to a world much bigger than her small Nebraska town. During one World Thinking Day, Megan remembers connecting with girls around the world through an international Girl Scout chat room; an experience that showed her that the boundaries of her world didn't have to be the boundaries of her town.

Those lessons stayed with her as she built businesses and eventually served eight years as a Nebraska State Senator.

But perhaps the most powerful lesson she took from Girl Scouts is that leadership isn't about having a title.

“Leadership has nothing to do with your title or any formal kind of power. It develops through thousands of small experiences where you're trusted to make a decision, figure something out, speak up, help someone else, or try something you haven't done before.”

That's the power of Girl Scouts. Girls don't just hear that they can lead someday. They get to practice leadership now.

100 years. Countless stories. One lasting legacy.