Margaret Marcotte

As Program Manager for Research, Margaret provides financial and grants administration support to the Center and its operations. She has been involved in building educational success and economic mobility of underserved communities at local, national and global levels through donor-funded programming for over 15 years. Margaret has earned a Master’s in International Business Management from the Thunderbird School of Global Management at ASU, a Bachelor of Arts in French Language and Literature from University of Rhode Island, and Diplome d’Etudes Universitaires Generales (DEUG) from the Universite d’Orleans, France.

Before joining the CHHCS team, Margaret was the Director of Educational Outreach at Yale, where she managed the programming and administration of a U.S. Department of Education Title VI NRC grant, as well as those from private donors. The objective of these awards was to strengthen the academic competitiveness in strategic regional studies for K-16 students, with programming strategically developed for minority and non-traditional students. Her experience in financial administration includes managing the lending operations and portfolio disbursements in the World Bank Africa Region. Margaret has also contributed to USAID-funded efforts to increase children’s literacy through the Global Book Alliance, where she was instrumental in initiating the inclusion of Indigenous languages (US and Latin American) into a digital reading platform.

She spends her free time traveling and honing her skills in Petanque, as a member of the National Capital Club de Petanque, and in viticulture. She also loves hanging out with her adult children and 2 cats.