Ms. Madison devoted her professional life to serving children — both in the nonprofit sector, and as a teacher and administrator in Philadelphia schools.
Devon Claire Mizzell Madison, 34, of Point Breeze, a Philadelphia educator, died Tuesday, March 5, of brain cancer at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania.
Ms. Madison wasn’t the assigned mentor of Asia White, a member of the first Minds Matter class, but Ms. Madison became White’s mentor anyway, and it was a defining relationship of White’s life. When White graduated as valedictorian of Parkway West in 2011, Ms.
before becoming assistant principal of Andrew Hamilton Elementary, a Philadelphia School District school in West Philadelphia. “She was back in action pretty quickly — she needed to exercise her brain constantly, she wanted to stay engaged and felt a responsibility to go back,” said MacKinnon. For a time, things were stable — Ms. Madison was far enough past chemotherapy that her doctors said it was okay to try for another child, something she wanted very much.swelling on the left side of her brain began giving her trouble typing and writing. She checked into the hospital Feb.
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