Madylan Womack earned her J.D. from Harvard Law School, where she was an executive technical editor for the Harvard Civil Rights–Civil Liberties Law Review and a research assistant. Before law school, Madylan worked in management consulting.
While in law school, she was an intern at the Securities and Exchange Commission in the Division of Enforcement and advised on food policy with the Harvard Food Law and Policy Clinic in Mexico and South Africa. She was a student intern at the Native Hawaiian Legal Corporation, which represents Native Hawaiian cultural practitioners, families and communities in legal matters. She also represented clients in family state court and administrative hearings with the Harvard Law Family Justice Clinic.