Madeline Yates

Madeline Yates is the founder and executive director of the newly created Maryland Campus Compact. Sher also founded Resources for Global Citizenship, an organization dedicated to facilitating the local and global engagement of higher education and K-12 institutions and systems.

Ms. Yates has over twenty years of experience in cross-cultural and service-learning programs, as a participant, coordinator, and manager. After many years volunteering and doing service and experiential education work domestically and internationally, she helped develop Gettyburg Colleg's Center for Public Service. She then taught in Montgomery County Public Shools, coordinating service-learning projects for her students and school. After becoming a Maryland State Department of Education Fellow for service-learning, she helped coordinate the Maryland State Department of Education's nationally recognized K-12 service-learning program, training teachers and assessing school district programming throughout the state.

Subsequent to her work in Maryland, Ms. Yates directed the AmeriCorps*VISTA program for Pennsylvania Campus Compact, working directly with over 40 colleges and universities throughout the state to build the PACC-ViSTA leadership development program.

Ms. Yates has presented papers and spoken to a wide range of organizations and gatherings, both in the United States and abroad, including presenting the keynote address to the International Service-Learning Conference in Buenos Aires, Argentina. She serves on the board of the National Service-Learning Partnership and the Superintendent's Service-Learning Advisory Board for Montgomery County Public Schools in Maryland.

An active community volunteer, Ms. Yates serves on the Executive Committee of the Project Gettysburg-Leon, an international sister-city project that focuses on international cooperation between the communities of Gettysburg, PA and Leon, Nicaragua. She has traveled extensively throughout the world-living, working, and volunteering for extended periods of time in Japan, Haiti, the Philippines, Nicaragua, and New Zealand. She has received several fellowships representing United States educators in Kyrgyzstan and Ecuador. She has consulted with international educational organizations in locations as varied as the Ukraine and Peru, and was awarded two Fulbright fellowships to India and South Africa. She holds a BA from Gettysburg College and an MA from Hood College.