Margo Pedroso
Margo Pedroso serves as the deputy director for the Safe Routes to School National Partnership. In this role, she manages government relations, grassroots lobbying, policy research and analysis to advance the SRTS national movement, and assists the Director with partner outreach, fundraising, and strategic planning.
Prior to joining the SRTS National Partnership, Margo spearheaded public policy and advocacy for MENTOR/National Mentoring Partnership. During her tenure, she built bipartisan Congressional support for youth mentoring, resulting in a four-fold increase in federal funding for mentoring programs and a Congressional pilot program that allows mentoring programs to use FBI background checks to screen volunteers. Margo served as the policy liaison with human service organizations, state partners, and federal agencies. She also carried out a wide-reaching initiative to conduct a national conversation on mentoring and develop a “National Agenda for Action” to expand the availability and quality of youth mentoring.
Margo has also held positions with the federal Institute of Museum and Library Services and the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Education and the Workforce, focused on government relations and education policy. In total, she has over twelve years of experience handling appropriations and policy issues, focusing particularly on priorities that will improve the lives of children.