Education

Occidental College

B.A., Diplomacy and World Affairs

2011

Podcasts

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77: What It’s Like Being a BadAss Global Policy Advocate w/ Madeline Rose, Mercy Corps [Main T4C episode]

Madeline Rose is a Senior Global Advocacy Advisor at Mercy Corps, a global humanitarian and development NGO, where she works to create and implement public policies to solve some of the world’s biggest problems. She’s a policy expert and advocacy strategist with innovative problem-solving skills, evidenced by her success in..

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182: How to Break Into Policy & Advocacy in Humanitarian & Global Development w/ Madeline Rose, Mercy Corps [Espresso Shots]

Career Path

Interview Highlights

“As an American, if I really wanted to help advance equality and justice and peace in the world, the best thing that I could do was to influence U.S. foreign policy.”

Best Career Advice

“Stay humble. Always focus on what you want to learn and don’t know.”

Career Challenge

“My whole professional career was the Obama administration, which was an administration that was very favorable to civil society input. I got to go to the National Security Council, I could email someone from the state department, ask for coffee and they would say yes, and they would hear me out and listen to my opinions. In terms of access to government for American civil society, we had very high levels of access. And now we’re with the Trump administration who is much less interested in collective civil society input into policy.”

Skills

Policy Analysis, Foreign Policy, Research, Public Policy, Politics, International Relations, Nonprofits, Community Outreach, Sustainable Development, Speech Writing, Public Speaking, Spanish, Government Advocacy

Professional Interests

Bill Gates, Brené Brown, Jacinda Ardern, Google, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Amazon, PCDN.Global, #NatSecGirlSquad, BAIL: Bay Area International Link, Occidental College, United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR), University of Cape Town