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Madeleine Eileen Jensen is the Director of the YWCA in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Jensen has been acting Chief Executive Officer of YWCA of Greater Pittsburgh. She has held this position November 2007. Jensen has been a Federal Probation Officer in Arizona and was the first women selected for this position. For nine years, her responsibilities included handling the $15 million budget of the U.S. Probation Office. Jensen worked in Washington, DC for the headquarters of the Administrative Office of the United States Courts. She provided instruction at the Federal Judicial Center and the American University in the Department of Justice, Law and Society,

national sentencing policy and functioned as liaison to the U.S. Sentencing Commission. While in Washington, as well as a member of the Board of Directors of the Thurgood Marshall Child Development Center. She has hands-on experience connecting people in need to community resources from her experiences as a U.S. probation officer in San Diego and as a deputy probation officer in Contra Costa County, CA. She was also a Lecturer at California State University, Hayward in the Department of Criminal Justice for five years.

Ms. Jensen holds a Bachelor of Arts, Criminology and a Master of Criminology from the University of California, Berkeley, CA. She is a member of the Advisory Board for the Pennsylvania Center for Women and Politics at Chatham University, the “Kitchen Cabinet” of the Bayer Center for Non-Profit Management’s 74% Study “Exploring the Lives of Women in Nonprofits”, the Civic Advisory Committee of the Allegheny County Jail Collaborative, and a member of the Board for The Program for Offenders, Inc. She is also on the Advisory Committees for the professional journals Federal Probation and the Federal Sentencing Reporter.