Megan Ahsens

Update bio: Megan Ahsens is a Senior Assistant District Attorney in Douglas County, Kansas. She is the head of the Special Victim's Unit and focuses on the prosecution of sex crimes and major felonies. Megan has been a prosecutor since 2002 and has focused primarily on crimes against women and children. She has done over 50 jury trials and hundreds of bench trials, preliminary hearings, and motion hearings. She did her first jury trial in July 2001 as an intern in the Douglas County, Colorado DA’s office.

Megan graduated from the University of Kansas in 1998 with a B.A. in English and graduated from the University of Denver College of Law with a J.D. in 2002.

Throughout her career, Megan has worked with law enforcement and forensic experts at crime labs to successfully hold offenders accountable. She has trained law enforcement throughout the state of Kansas, around the country, and internationally on domestic violence investigations, trauma-informed interviewing, evidence collection, strangulation investigation, and lethality assessments. She is on the legal advisory board for the Institute on Strangulation Prevention.

Megan authored the lethality assessment protocol currently in use in Johnson County and around the state of Kansas. This protocol aims to get survivors of domestic violence into services through shelters which reduces their risk of being killed or further abused.