Madeleine Moore - University of Chicago

In 2024, I successfully unionized my former workplace with my coworkers! This has been one of my proudest career achievements and the result of over a year of building relationships and trust with everyone across my company. As of now, they are still in bargaining and I am hopeful they will have a new contract soon! Additionally, after nearly three years at my former job, I was hired at the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee as their Digital Campaigns Manager. In this role, I was able to manage staff and raised over $16 million for fifteen incumbent and challenger U.S. House candidates. While we saw some losses on Election Night, we also saw some major wins and flipped several House seats in California and New York. I look forward to working at the DCCC this coming year and hope to work towards a better Election Night in 2026.

This year I also saw my brother, Huck, the youngest of all my siblings, graduate high school. He is now attending Yale University alongside my sister, Ingrid, while my other sister Isabel, is now a Teacher's Assistant at the West Tisbury School. Since 2011, there has been a Moore sibling at MVRHS so it feels very bittersweet now that we are all graduated and off on our own adventures. I felt very lucky I was able to come back to the island twice this Summer and I hope to be back more frequently the next. Every time I come home I am reminded of what a special and unique place Martha's Vineyard is and every time I leave I am thinking of my next trip back. As everyone in my family embarks on their own path, those times at home together are even more special and I feel truly grateful for the time we have with each other on the island.