Marie-Frances is President at the Massachusetts Budget and Policy Center. She has held many roles at the organization over the past several years, including Deputy Director, Director of Development and Policy Analyst

Prior to joining MassBudget, Marie-Frances was a grantmaker at the Hyams Foundation, which has a mission of increasing economic, racial, and social justice and power within low-income communities in Greater Boston. While at the Foundation, she advised and worked on the creation and implementation of a newly formed racial justice and public policy grantmaking initiative.

Marie-Frances has also spent time directly working with young people through a youth mentoring program she helped establish and manage in her hometown of New Bedford, MA. She holds a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from Babson College and a Master in Law and Public Policy from Northeastern University.