MDCC Staff
Madeline Yates
Executive Director
Contact Madeline
(301) 447-8326
Madeline Yates is the founder and executive director of the newly created Maryland Campus Compact. She 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 Gettysburg College's Center for Public Service. She then taught in Montgomery County Public Schools, 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 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 Kyrghystan 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.
Louis McGinty
VISTA Leader
Contact Louis
(301) 447-8326
As a VISTA Leader, Louis is tasked with staying in touch with VISTAs in the MDCC, assisting in coordination efforts. Prior to this position, Louis worked at the Anchorage Economic Development Corporation and as a Poverty Program Coordinator VISTA with the Iowa Great Places Program. Louis was born and raised in Alaska and holds a BA in Sociology from Grinnell College and an MPA from Drake University.
Laura White
Administrative Assistant
Contact Laura
(301) 447-8326
Laura White is originally from Roselle, Illinois, but has lived in Frederick County, Maryland for the past 13 years. During this time, she has been heavily involved in the public school system both as an employee and a volunteer, and has also spent countless hours volunteering in a variety of local youth sports and organizations. Laura and her husband of 21 years have four children; their oldest daughter attends Johns Hopkins University, their twin sons attend the United States Naval Academy, and their youngest daughter is in elementary school.
Andrea Zaremba
Administrative Assistant
Contact Andrea
(301) 447-8326
Originally from Scranton, Pennsylvania, Andrea has spent most of her life between Wilmington, DE and western New York. She began working with data entry and data processing after she graduated from high school and has been witness to the vast changes that have occurred in the field. Although her resume includes a broad and varied background of experience and employers, most recognizable are the 17 years she spent with UPS, 15 of which were in Buffalo, NY handling international shipments. Andrea now lives in south-central Pennsylvania and is a full-time grandmother of four.