Madison Fields, J.D. Email & Phone Number

Madison Fields is a Legal Advisor at Global Health Advocacy Incubator’s Overdose Prevention Initiative, where she leads federal lobbying efforts to congressional offices on a range of substance use- and overdose related issues and provides legal counsel and technical assistance on legislation to the Overdose Prevention team. Fields recently completed a fellowship at the O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law at Georgetown University Law Center, where she worked on several domestic initiatives. She primarily worked on the Addiction and Public Policy Initiative, working with physicians, researchers, government officials, advocates, people with lived experience, and others to advance public policy that promotes a public health approach to substance use disorders. Fields received her Juris Doctor from Elon University School of Law in Greensboro, North Carolina. While in law school, Fields served as a full-time resident at the ACLU of North Carolina, a legal extern for the Civil Liberties Defense Center, and a research assistant primarily focusing on public health policy and model legislation. Her work at the ACLU focused on the rights of incarcerated people, primarily on access to healthcare, as well as the rights of people arrested for protesting police violence in North Carolina. Outside of her professional experience, Fields has engaged in several social justice initiatives, including initiatives for reproductive rights, racial equity, and incarcerated persons rights. Fields was a board member of her school’s Innocence Project, and received pro bono recognition for her service.