Heather Booth

Bio

Heather Booth has been an organizer for over forty years starting in the civil rights and women's movement. She is one of the country’s leading strategists about the development of progressive issue campaigns and the integration of issue and civic engagement efforts. 

She was the founding Director and is now President of the Midwest Academy, training social change leaders and organizers. In 2000, she was the Director of the NAACP National Voter Fund, which helped to increase African American election turnout by nearly 2 million voters. She has been a consultant to a variety of social change and political groups that have included MoveOn.org, National Council of La Raza, Campaign for America’s Future and NOW.  She was the lead consultant for the founding of the Campaign for Comprehensive Immigration Reform. In 2008 she was the director of the Health Care Campaign for the AFL-CIO. she directed the campaign that was successful in passing President Obama’s first budget.   

In 2010 she was the founding director of Americans for Financial Reform, fighting to regulate the financial industry.  She is currently consulting with a variety of organizations and working to promote voter registration.