Welcome

Greetings from Madeira! It has been over 100 years since Lucy Madeira began engaging the minds and nurturing the confidence of young women. Miss Madeira believed it was both a duty and a privilege to help young women to understand their changing world and have the confidence to live lives of their own making, their own passions, their own dreams.

Before she ever comes to us, a girl knows a lot about herself. She knows she loves to read and to dance. She wishes to be as patient as her father, as funny as her mother, and as courageous as Anne Frank. She likes being part of a team or having one very best friend, or maybe both.
She has questions, and emotions and opinions galore.

She has posters. She has purple pens. She wants to be a veterinarian. She wants to save the
world. She has already begun to speak her life.
Madeira brings power to her intellect, nuance to her thought, stamina to her pursuits. Here she can find the words to speak her mind and her heart. She finds what she needs whether it is a lectern or Capitol Hill, a newspaper or canvas, a playing field or a laboratory.

In our commitment to the mission of Lucy Madeira, we strive to empower and encourage girls
to explore their interests, develop their abilities, act with self-confidence and with compassion, and assume responsibility for their actions in the global community.
Having something to say means nothing if there are no ears to hear it or minds to oppose it
or hands to act upon it. We say to her, tell us, tell us every day. And it is our privilege that she does.
Are you a girl with something to say? If so, please join us this summer at Madeira.