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10 April 2025 • Alums Meyer '24 Takes on Capitol Hill with Congresswoman Dina Titus
Previous campaign experience supports Maddi Meyer ’24 in her current role with Nevada Congresswoman and goal of working in agriculture policy.
Ready to start her career on Capitol Hill, Maddi Meyer '24 is working as a legislative intern in the office of Congresswoman Dina Titus (D-NV).
In her role, Meyer drafts legislative memos on bills put to the floor, prepares memorandums on congressional briefings for legislative staffers, monitors weekly committee hearings and leads tours of the U.S. Capitol Building.
As a Maryland native, she’s also coming up to speed with Nevada's needs and familiarizing herself with its local and state representatives.
“I am humbled and grateful to be at the political and intellectual nexus of so many stakeholders and experts,” says Meyer, who graduated summa cum laude in economics. “I also feel that the people I am meeting and the friends I am making are the future of our government and that we are all learning valuable lessons on building bridges and advocating for our districts.”
Meyer’s first experience came during the spring of 2024 when she interned on the campaign for Congresswoman Sarah Elfreth (D-MD). She called voters to inform them of Elfreth’s stances on policies and gauged voter interest.
Following graduation, Meyer worked as a field organizer with the Maryland Democratic Party on its Coordinated Campaign, which represented all the Democratic candidates in Maryland for Senate, House and Board of Education elections. From the Maryland Democratic Headquarters office in Annapolis, she knocked on doors and made daily volunteer recruitment calls, coordinating a network of more than 100 volunteers and overseeing daily field office operations.
Her adviser, Assistant Professor of Economics Anastasia Wilson, praised Meyer for her dedication to activism and her ambition to make a positive impact on the world. Meyer researched the ability to access reproductive healthcare in the Finger Lakes and other parts of New York for an independent research paper and continued the research for her final project in “Econometrics,” and worked on reproductive justice issues through HWS’ chapter of the Public Leadership Education Network.
“Maddi’s initiative, paired with her research skills and organizing experience here at HWS, set her on a path to do important work in policy and politics,” says Wilson.
Meyer also credits her time at HWS with discovering her passion for agricultural policy, particularly through her studies in geoscience, participation in the Geneva Women’s Assembly, hiking through the Finger Lakes and working at Lake Drum Brewing. Her class in geomorphology, the study of the development of landscapes, under Associate Professor of Geoscience Tara Curtin was especially influential in steering her towards agricultural policy because it revealed the modern connection between human practices and geology.
“HWS was special for me because it taught me how to connect with a place and cultivate authentic relationships, values that I bring to my version of politics and policy,” says Meyer.
During her time on campus, Meyer was inducted into Phi Beta Kappa, Hai Timiai, the Laurel Society, and the Omicron Delta Epsilon honor societies. She received the Blair C. Currie Prize in Economics, the William Smith 75th Anniversary Prize and the Welker Memorial Prize. She studied abroad in Christchurch, New Zealand.
Grateful for the academic preparation she received as a student at the Severn School, Meyer nominated her high school English teacher for the Touching the Future Award, which honors an educator or mentor who has empowered a student on their way to HWS, during Commencement 2024.
Top: Maddi Meyer '24 poses with Congresswoman Dina Titus (D-NV).
