Maddie Sarre

Maddie coordinates the Advocacy and Education team at the Working Women’s Centre SA. She has a background in community organising, campaigning and training across movements for workers’ rights, climate justice and gender equity. She is passionate about working collaboratively to dismantle the patriarchy in our workplaces.

Maddie grew up on Peramangk Country in the Adelaide Hills. Driven by concerns about the local and global impacts of climate change, she became active in the youth climate movement as a teenager. She joined the campaign for a just transition from coal to renewable energy in Port Augusta. This campaign had a great influence on Maddie’s worldview and career; after witnessing the strength of workers and the community fighting for a safer future, Maddie decided she wanted to become an organiser.

Since then, Maddie has worked in different organisations including the Australian Services Union SA/NT, the Working Women’s Centre SA and the Australian Youth Climate Coalition, where she was most recently the Organising and Training Director. In this role, she coordinated training programs for young people across the country.

She has a Bachelor of Laws and a Bachelor of Arts with a Major in History from the University of Adelaide.