Many of the stories told this year speak of a wave of women who woke up the day after the election and decided to run for office, but many women who have been preparing for this moment for years.
Author: Andrea Dew Steele
Andrea Dew Steele co-founded Emerge California in 2002 to get more women elected to office in Northern California. Andrea worked tirelessly to develop a top notch training program and in 2005 she founded Emerge America to replicate the model in all 50 states. Emerge currently has training programs in 16 states across the country with plans to expand in the future. Andrea also served as Political and Philanthropic Advisor to Susie Tompkins Buell and worked for many years in D.C. as a policy analyst and fundraiser. She holds a B.A. in Political Science from Tufts University and a M.A. in International History from the London School of Economics.