Throughout her career, Madeleine MacDonald has worked to improve the hospitality industry from within.
Along with organizing and competing in Speed Rack, an all-female cocktail competition raising funds for breast cancer research, she serves on the board of directors for the non-profit Bartenders Benevolent Fund, which helps hospitality workers with emergency financial needs.
In 2017, she helped organize Cocktails and Consent, working with Calgary’s Centre for Sexuality to train industry workers to recognize sexual harassment and violence in the workplace and intervene as a bystander witnessing it.
She recently made this training available for students and is working to add it to the curriculum.
A one-time cook and server, MacDonald has worked for several Calgary bars and restaurants in both front and back-of-house positions.
Fast facts about Madeleine
- Graduated from SAIT’s Hospitality Management program - 2014
- Organize the Cocktails and Consent training program - 2017
- Brought her mentorship skills and knowledge back to the School of Hospitality and Tourism as an instructor - 2018
- White Hat Award winner for beverage specialist - 2018
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SAIT is located on the traditional territories of the Niitsitapi (Blackfoot) and the people of Treaty 7 which includes the Siksika, the Piikani, the Kainai, the Tsuut’ina and the Îyârhe Nakoda of Bearspaw, Chiniki and Goodstoney.
We are situated in an area the Blackfoot tribes traditionally called Moh’kinsstis, where the Bow River meets the Elbow River. We now call it the city of Calgary, which is also home to the Métis Nation of Alberta.