Madeligne Tena | Coaching Manager
Madeligne Tena joined the Compass team in September 2020 as a coaching manager. In this role, she manages a team of financial coaches and also coaches clients one-on-one. Prior to her role as a coaching manager, she spent the last decade serving families with low incomes and of many different backgrounds, in a number of different capacities to assist families with accessing vital need-based programs. As a result, she has helped hundreds of families access food stamps and childcare vouchers, calculated peoples' rental payment obligations in a federal housing voucher program, and helped individuals experiencing homelessness find and secure affordable housing. Madeligne also spent some time helping residents in low-income housing communities to work around issues of neighborhood gentrification, stabilization, and displacement.
In her most recent role as a financial capabilities manager, she ran a VITA (Volunteer Income Tax Assistance) site in the city of Chelsea, where she and her team of volunteers helped people access valuable poverty-reducing tax credits and conducted financial education classes.
Madeligne is an advocate and servant at heart. Madeligne wants to see people achieve financial stability and mobility and aspires to get financial education implemented into schools. She also hopes to be a part of a movement of practitioners that works to influence and change policy around income-based programs that keep people of color from building wealth.
In her spare time she enjoys giving resources to people that are rent burdened or in need of housing, and likes exploring new places to eat in her Dorchester neighborhood, where she lives with her husband, who is a Boston Public Schools teacher, and their two sons.