MADELINE NEIGHLY

Madeline Neighly is an Affiliate Fellow at the Georgetown Center on Poverty and Inequality and Senior Strategist and Researcher at the Institute on Race, Power and Political Economy at The New School. She advises GCPI staff and conducts research on direct cash transfers that help families meet their basic needs and promote economic mobility.  

She most recently served as Stakeholder Engagement Advisor to the Resilient Families Hub, an interagency project housed in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’s Administration for Children and Families. The Resilient Families Hub had a mandate to better understand the role of direct cash transfers in advancing economic stability and mobility in the United States. Madeline worked with federal, state, and local governments and community-based organizations to provide subject matter expertise, research findings and evidence-based policies and practices around the targeted use of direct cash.

Trained as a lawyer, Madeline’s work has spanned economic policy, prisoners’ rights, guaranteed income, and the intersection of employment and criminal justice, all with a focus on racial and gender equity. She has held positions at Columbia University, Economic Security Project, Roosevelt Institute, Council of State Governments Justice Center, National Employment Law Project, and more. 

She holds a J.D. from the University of California, Berkeley Law, and a B.A. in Gender Studies from the University of California, Berkeley.