Madeline serves as an Advisor with Strategic Stabilization Advisors, a professional advisory firm that partners with government and multilateral organizations to address instability and conflict in fragile environments. In this capacity, she collaborates with a network of seasoned practitioners to deliver data-driven analysis and strategic guidance. Her work focuses on bridging the gap between high-level policy mandates—such as the Global Fragility Act—and the practicalities of field-level implementation. By integrating regional political insights with a deep understanding of conflict drivers, she helps SSA clients navigate the intersection of security, governance, and civilian protection to achieve sustainable stability.
Strategic Stabilization Advisors
Madeline serves as a Consulting Advisor with Collaborative Structural Change (CSC), a transnational network of practitioners, scholars, and changemakers working to prevent atrocity violence by transforming the systems and structures that produce harm. As a member of this network, she contributes to mission-aligned initiatives through problem-driven, collaborative approaches that prioritize context and lived experiences. She leverages her substantive expertise in atrocity prevention and regional conflict dynamics to strengthen the organization's analytical rigor and strategic positioning in prevention-oriented programming. Operating as an independent contractor and non-member affiliate, she works alongside a global community of experts to develop evidence-based solutions for structural change and long-term peacebuilding.
Collaborative Structure Change
Madeline Vellturo is a co-founder and host of Former Feds & Friends, a collaborative media initiative that uses popular film and television as entry points for discussing governance, rule of law, and violence prevention. Drawing on decades of collective experience advising the U.S. government, Madeline and her collaborators translate policy and analytical concepts into accessible, engaging formats designed to support informed civic engagement. The project serves as a public-facing complement to applied policy and research work; further information is available through the Former Feds & Friends website.