Marybeth Campbell

Marybeth Campbell is the Chief Executive Officer of the Worcester Community Action Council, a Central MA anti-poverty focused on stabilizing individuals and households through safety net programs and partnering with people to help them thrive. Marybeth joined WCAC as a board member in 2017 and became Executive Director in 2019. Prior to joining WCAC as Executive Director, she was the Executive Director of SkillWorks at the Boston Foundation, an ambitious effort on the part of philanthropy, government, community organizations, unions, and employers to create a workforce development system that helps low-skill, low-income residents move to family-sustaining jobs and helps employers find and retain skilled employees.

Marybeth has near 25 years experience in public policy, public education, and project management in the areas of clean energy, education, economic and workforce development. From 2012-2014, Marybeth served in a role as the Commonwealth’s first cross-secretariat Director of Education and Workforce Development advising the Deval L. Patrick Administration’s cabinet secretaries in the Executive Offices of Education, Labor and Workforce, and Housing and Economic Development on workforce and education policy development, program strategy and implementation. Marybeth previously served as the state’s first Workforce Development Director at the Massachusetts Clean Energy Center establishing national-leading green jobs programs by working with higher education, vocational schools, labor organizations and community-based nonprofits to develop training and workforce capacity that supports the Commonwealth’s growing clean energy industry. Her previous work also includes serving as the Public Education Manager for the former Massachusetts Renewable Energy Trust where she oversaw two education initiatives that funded projects to increase awareness among teachers, students, and the public about the benefits of clean energy, and as a senior research analyst for the Massachusetts House of Representatives Joint Committee on Telecommunications, Utilities and Energy.

She has a bachelor’s degree in political science from Providence College and attended Suffolk University Law School.