Pilar McDonald
Paralegal at The Legal Aid Society Criminal Appeals Bureau
- Role
- Co-founder and Co-director at Project Matriarchs
- Location
- Brooklyn, NY, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Pilar McDonald
I graduated from Brown University with honors in a major I designed myself: Caregiving and Care Infrastructure in the US. I wrote a senior thesis on the Wages for Housework Movement and looked at current efforts aiming to compensate and value unpaid care labor. In addition to my academic background with regard to caregiving, I took a year off from Brown, where I co-founded and co-directed an organization called Project Matriarchs. In September 2020, we launched Project Matriarchs as a service that matched college students with working families to provide virtual academic support and childcare on a free/sliding scale basis. We later developed our Pledge to Care, which aims to frame care as a key social issue for Gen Z, interconnected with other social issues like gender equity and racial justice that our generation has put its collective energy behind, with the ultimate goal of actualizing a future in which caregivers are genuinely respected and cared for in the United States.
Experience
Co-founder and Co-director
Jul 2020 — Present
Founded fiscally sponsored 501(c)(3) organization, Project Matriarchs, to pair college students with moms for virtual support for their children in an effort to ease the disproportionate burden falling on working mothers during the COVID-19 Pandemic. Facilitated matchings between 200+ families and college students; recruited and interviewed over 550 college students; raised over in funding- Directly hired and managed 30 summer interns while founding Project Matriarchs’ advocacy branch and launching the first advocacy initiative, Pledge to Care. Cultivated partnerships with 12 organizations, including The Female Quotient and New America’s Better Life Lab- Featured in Good Morning America, ABC News, Boston 25 News, Yahoo! News, Moms.com and mom.com.
Education
Brown University
Bachelor's degree, Independent Concentration in "Caregiving and Care Infrastructure in the US"
Proyecto Linguistico Quetzaltenango
Spanish Language and Literature
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