BOARD OF DIRECTORS:
Martha Sterling-Golden
President
Maine
Deb
Sofield
1st Vice-President
South
Carolina
Patricia Russo
2nd
Vice-President
Connecticut
Laurel Anderson
Treasurer
Connecticut
Arlene Violet
Secretary
Rhode Island
Nancy Bocskor
Virginia
Lauren
Day
New Jersey
Angela
Faulkner
Indiana
Mary A.
Johnson
Nebraska
Valerie
R. Landry
Maine
Tanya Meck
Connecticut
Julie
Roginsky
New York
Pam Stark
Connecticut
Kate
Stith
Connecticut
Shawnta
Walcott
Maryland
HONORARY BOARD
MEMBERS:
Hon. Julie D.
Belaga
Hon. Susan Bysiewicz
Hon. Rosa
DeLauro
Hon. Diane Farrell
Hon. Gabrielle
Giffords
Hon. Eunice S. Groark
Hon. Toni Harp
Kim Healey
Hon. Nancy L.
Johnson
Hon. Barbara B.
Kennelly
Hon. Pauline R.
Kezer
Kay
Maxwell
Hon. Denise W. Merrill
MaryAnn O'Connor
Beth Bird Pocker
Samar Rashdan al-Roomi
Audrey Rowe
Annette J.
Samuels
Diane Smith
Robert Tichio
Patricia Widlitz
Hon. Nancy S. Wyman
PRESIDENTS
EMERITAE
Andrée
Aelion Brooks,
Founding President, Women's Campaign School
at Yale
Carolanne Curry
Lauren K.
Day
George Dean*
Hon. Denise W. Merrill
MaryAnn O'Connor
Ann Sheffer
Allyson
Serxner Stollenwerck
Hon. Nancy S. Wyman
*deceased
DIRECTORS IN
MEMORIUM
Linda
Davidoff
George A.
Dean
Fayne E.
Erickson
Robin I. Kroogman
Prudence "Prue" Bliss
The Women's Campaign School is a nonpartisan, issue-neutral
political campaign training program.
Our mission is to provide the very best training in the world for women
who want to run for office or who want to move up to higher elective
office. We train women to run political campaigns, and to advance
their careers in public life in political environments. We train
women leaders who are capable of building relationships regardless of
political point of view.
Every summer we bring women together from around the United
States and other parts of the world to learn the skills and strategies
to run successful political campaigns. For five days our
participants are put through an intensive political immersion program
designed to teach political skills, strategic assessment, and
improvisation. We bring experienced operatives in to teach and to
share their experiences in a more reflective way to provide
perspective.
This unique curriculum is designed by and for women to address
the particular cultural challenges faced by women in politics.
The instructors are the best and most experienced in the business, and
they come from both political parties. We focus on our common
needs and experiences as political women, not our differences as
political partisans.
Some of our participants already sit across the aisle from
one another in state legislatures around the country, while others are taking their experience to capitols
around the world. They all leave WCS Yale
with an unmatched experience in collaborative learning about the
democratic political process and how to advance their careers in
political life.
Due to the rigorous nature of
the program and the schedule, participants are advised to apply after
they have already had some political campaign experience. The
schedule reflects the demands of the final weeks of a general election
campaign.
WCS is a small-group setting designed to
increase opportunities for networking among students. All
classes are held at Yale Law School in New Haven, Connecticut.
Special Event Seminar
Our secondary program runs a series of occasional Special Event Seminars;
day-long seminars throughout the calendar year designed to
provide in-depth training in a particular area of expertise. The
emphasis for these sessions is also non-partisan. The SES
requires a simple registration rather than an application.
The Women's Campaign School at Yale University was founded in
1993 by author and scholar Andree Aelion Brooks.
WCS Yale is a 501.c.3 non-profit sponsored at Yale
by the Yale Law School.
