Vanessa Wruble

Vanessa Wruble
Vanessa Wruble at 2017 Women's March on Washington.
Born (1974-08-27) August 27, 1974
Washington, D.C., U.S.
Education Sidwell Friends School
Alma mater
Years active 2008–present
Known for Co-founder Women's March on Washington

Vanessa Wruble (born August 27, 1974) is an American entrepreneur, journalist, and activist. In 2017, Wruble co-founded and served as Head of Campaign Operations of the 2017 Women's March.

Personal life

Early life & education

Wruble grew up in Washington, D.C, the daughter of Bernhardt K. Wruble, a prominent lawyer appointed by President Jimmy Carter as the first director of the Office of Government Ethics.[1] She graduated from Sidwell Friends High School.[2][3] She earned a BA (Cum Laude) from Williams College, studying Women’s Issues, Psychology, and Fiction Writing,[4] and Master's Degrees in Social Research in Psychology from The New School and Interactive Media from NYU.[5]

Early career

With the launch of Al Gore's Current TV, she served as the company's first international correspondent.[6] Wruble also worked as a journalist for print magazines and as a Communication Specialist for the United Nations.[7]

OkayAfrica

In 2011, together with The Roots frontman Questlove, Wruble founded OkayAfrica, a digital media platform dedicated to African culture, music and politics.[8][9] Wruble helped grow the company to become the largest US-based website focusing on new and progressive music, art, politics, and culture from the African continent.[10] She ran the company for seven years until she stepped down to organize the 2017 Women's March.[11]

Activism

Women's March

Wruble co-founded the Women's March on Washington, and served as Head of Campaign Operations.[12] In an effort to bring diversity to the leadership of the March, she was responsible for bringing on 3 of the 4 National Co-Chairs, Carmen Perez, Linda Sarsour, and Tamika Mallory, to serve alongside Bob Bland.[13][14]

Originally named "Millions Women's March" Wruble renamed the event "The Women's March on Washington", to avoid overwriting the history of the 1997 Millions Women's March in Philadelphia.[15]

March On

In October 2017, Wruble led the leaders of the decentralized nationwide Women's Marches to form a new organization, March On.[16] In addition, they launched a Super PAC called March On's Fight Back PAC.[17] March On takes a bottoms up approach to coordinate actions at the federal, state, and local level, by joining together the various women's groups around the nation to work in a cohesive way.[18] March On announced the goal of creating political change through their "March On the Polls" campaign, including marching people to voting booths for the November 2018 midterms for a March On the Midterms.[19] On January 20, 2018, March On launched a nationwide poll to help design the liberal activist agenda for the 2018 midterms and beyond.[20]

Honors & awards

References

  1. ↑ Jr., Stuart Taylor. "THOSE JOB-HOPPING CARTER PEOPLE". Retrieved 2018-04-18.
  2. ↑ "Getting There ... Eventually". Retrieved 2018-04-18.
  3. ↑ "Local Women's Marchers Distance Themselves From National Group". Retrieved 2018-04-18.
  4. ↑ Block, Jenny (2017-12-11). "Here's What happens when a woman uses cheeky Christmas pranks to upend the establishment". Huffington Post. Retrieved 2018-04-18.
  5. ↑ "12 Ways The New School Community Is Responding to the U.S. Election". The New School News. Retrieved 2018-04-18.
  6. ↑ "Vanessa Wruble, MA Psychology '08, Co-organized the Women's March on Washington". The New School News. Retrieved 2018-04-18.
  7. ↑ Block, Jenny (2017-12-11). "Here's What happens when a woman uses cheeky Christmas pranks to upend the establishment". Huffington Post. Retrieved 2018-04-18.
  8. ↑ "Who's Afraid Of Linda Sarsour?". The FADER. Retrieved 2018-04-18.
  9. ↑ "Meet 14 of the Badass Babes You Have to Thank for Yesterday's Marches". Retrieved 2018-04-18.
  10. ↑ "Rethink Africa Party | Yale Greenberg World Fellows". worldfellows.yale.edu. Retrieved 2018-04-18.
  11. ↑ "Getting There ... Eventually". Retrieved 2018-04-18.
  12. ↑ CNN, Saba Hamedy,. "Strategy divisions as Women's March returns". CNN. Retrieved 2018-04-18.
  13. ↑ "These Are the Women Organizing the Women's March on Washington". Vogue. Retrieved 2018-04-18.
  14. ↑ "This Holiday Season, Give the Gift of Impeachment". Vogue. Retrieved 2018-04-18.
  15. ↑ "These Are the Women Organizing the Women's March on Washington". Vogue. Retrieved 2018-04-18.
  16. ↑ Kucinich, Jackie (2018-03-09). "The Women's March That's Busy Promoting Women, Not Fighting Over Farrakhan". The Daily Beast. Retrieved 2018-04-18.
  17. ↑ "Women's march organizers ask Santa to impeach Trump in festive ad". Newsweek. 2017-11-29. Retrieved 2018-04-18.
  18. ↑ Ruiz, Rebecca. "Nasty women (and men) to crowdsource 'marching orders' ahead of midterm elections". Mashable. Retrieved 2018-04-18.
  19. ↑ "Who Owns the Women's March?". Rolling Stone. Retrieved 2018-04-18.
  20. ↑ "This Survey Lets You Help Design An Activist Agenda For 2018". Fast Company. 2018-01-19. Retrieved 2018-04-18.
  21. ↑ "Meet Our Fellows | Echoing Green". www.echoinggreen.org. Retrieved 2018-04-18.
  22. ↑ Afshani, Anna Holmes,Miguel Reveriego,Deborah. "How the Women's March Organizers Sparked a Movement". Glamour. Retrieved 2018-04-18.
  23. ↑ Pearson, Catherine (2017-04-06). "Did You Join The Women's March? You Just Won An Awesome Award". Huffington Post. Retrieved 2018-04-18.
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