Advisory Board

Emerge America has established a first-rate, nationally renowned Advisory Board who help the organization by speaking on its behalf and by participating in fundraising efforts.  They are:

Joan Blades
Co-Founder, Move-On and Mom's Rising

Heather Booth
Executive Director, Americans for Financial Reform

Susie Tompkins Buell
Democratic activist and philanthropist

Loretta Durbin
President, Illinois Women's Institute for Leadership

Pamela Eakes
Democratic activist

Anita Estell
Shareholder, Polsinelli & Shughart

Emily Evers
Director, Royal Bank of Canada

Gloria Feldt
Activist & Author, GloriaFeldt.com:Speaking Up

Jennifer Granholm
Former Governor of Michigan

Louise Gund
Democratic activist and philanthropist

Christina Ann Harbridge
President, Allegory Training

Celinda Lake 
President, Lake Research Partners

Ann Lewis
President, No-Limits.org, Former Advisor to Senator Hillary Clinton

John Luongo
Venture Partner, Opus Capital

Rob McKay
President, the McKay Foundation

Dee Dee Myers
Political Strategist and Author of Why Women Should Rule the World

Jennifer Siebel Newson
Founder, Girls' Club Entertainment LLC & writer, director, and producer of the documentary, Miss Representation

Eva Paterson
President, Equal Justice Society

Carol Pensky
Democratic activist

Deborah Rappaport
Democratic activist and philanthropist

Cecile Richards
President, Planned Parenthood Federation of America

Liz Shuler
Secretary-Treasurer, AFL-CIO

Gloria Steinem
Writer and activist

Margery Tabankin
Principal, Margery Tabankin and Associates

Linda Tarr-Whelan
Managing Director, Tarr-Whelan & Associates

Lisa Witter
Chief Operating Officer, Fenton Communications

Naomi Wolf
Writer and activist