The Executive Director provides strategic leadership and management to ensure all children served by the CAC receive coordinated, evidence-based interventions that help them pursue safety, healing, and justice.
Joanne Szeto
Executive Director Victim Witness Advocate
Joanne Szeto is the Executive Director of the Middlesex Children’s Advocacy Center. In this role, Joanne provides strategic leadership and management to ensure all children served by the CAC receive coordinated, evidence-based interventions that help them pursue safety, healing, and justice. Joanne also continues to provide support to victims of child abuse and exploitation in her role as a victim witness advocate.
Prior to being named Executive Director, Joanne served as a victim witness advocate in the Middlesex District Attorney’s Office for over twenty years. She spent the majority of that time in the office’s Child Protection Unit (CPU). Joanne was named supervisor of the advocate team in 2015. In this role, she ensured the victims and non-offending family members served by the CPU/CAC had access to trauma-informed mental health services and other entitlements mandated by the Massachusetts Victim Bill of Rights and the Middlesex District Attorney’s Victim Witness Bureau.
Joanne received her Bachelor of Arts in English with a Certificate in Community Health from Tufts University.
