As the Regional Operations Coordinator for the Massachusetts Commission on the Status of Women’s (MCSW), Madeleine provides essential administrative and fiscal support to MCSW and its regional commissions and general operations. McCarthy manages core financial documentation, assists with logistics, and helps maintain accurate records for our regional bodies.

McCarthy is a recent magna cum laude graduate of Boston University, where she studied in Boston, Washington, D.C., and London. Prior to joining MCSW, she worked in communications at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, where she developed a strong interest in America’s wealth inequity problem and social welfare policy. As an international human rights researcher, she contributed to an upcoming book on human rights in the post-World War II era and served as a student ambassador to the program.

Madeleine’s first steps into intersectional advocacy began during a period of national division, when she served as a local protest organizer for the Sunrise Movement and BLM. Since then, she has made it her mission to interrogate complex systems of power—and uplift those who are sidelined. She considers Boston her home and Massachusetts the best place in the country to get things done. Madeleine is ecstatic to begin her career at the intersection of community engagement and values-driven work with MCSW, guided by the words of her mother: “You can do anything, so long as you put your mind to it.”