Matty Hammon
Guided by the spirit of collaboration to build accessible resources for all and address social inequities.
Matty Hammon is a policy fellow working on the Beyond 2025 Action Hub and a member of the Social Work Innovation Lab. She is passionate about systems-level interventions and works to populate the Beyond 2025 database with policy pieces, resources, and information regarding the Trump administration’s actions; tracks congressional bills and provides updated information on their standing; and partakes in the Social Work Innovation Lab.
Hammon spent the last decade working with children, dedicating herself to working in disability access and justice spheres. While her work has been primarily in the public-school setting, she also has experience as a trained peer hotline assistant at Middle Earth, the country’s oldest student-run crisis hotline.
Matty served as a peer mentor/TA for a required writing class in undergrad, and was extensively involved in redeveloping the semester-long research and writing project students participated in during her final year.
Matty graduated summa cum laude from the State University of New York at Albany with a BA in psychology and human development before pursuing her Master in Social Work at Boston University.
