Madeleine works as curatorial staff in the mammalogy collection at the Harvard Museum of Comparative Zoology. She began as part-time staff in 2017, and has been a full-time member of the staff since 2018. She spends time both in the main collection and at Harvard's Concord Field Station as a specimen preparator. Her educational background includes a Bachelor's degree in Vertebrate Anatomy, a major she designed at Washington University in St. Louis. She hopes to eventually pursue a Master's degree in mammalogy as she continues her work at the MCZ.