Heather Booth has worked on elections and social change organizing for over 40 years, starting in the civil rights and women’s movement.
She was the founding Director and is now President of the Midwest Academy, a national training center for social change organizations including Sierra Club, NARAL, United States Student Association and many other groups. She was Co-director of Citizen Action with nearly 2 million dues paying members. She is now a Vice-Chair of USAction working on voter engagement and issues like Social Security and health care in about 30 statewide organizations and nationally.
Heather designed and directed the Democratic National Committee’s Training creating the highly acclaimed campaign training academies, and then was the National Field Director. She was the Field Director for Carol Moseley Braun’s successful 1992 Senate race, directed the Illinois 1996 Coordinated Campaign, the New York Coordinated GOTV effort in 1998, and the 2004 New Mexico Coordinated Campaign GOTV effort, among other races.
In 2000, she was the founding Executive Director of the NAACP National Voter Fund, which helped to increase the African American turnout by nearly 2 million voters.
Since 2004, Heather has been a consultant with groups working to build democracy including MoveOn.org, Campaign for America’s Future, Center for Community Change, Campaign for Comprehensive Immigration Reform, Women’s Voices/Women Vote and others.
