Giovanna Rossi Pressley, based in Albuquerque, serves on the National Women's Health Leadership Network for the Center for American Progress, is a founding member of the National Women's Health Agenda Taskforce, and is adjunct faculty in the Women's Studies Program at the University of New Mexico. She has served on the board of Emerge America, an organization dedicated to training women to run for office, and was vice-president of the New Mexico Commission on the Status of Women.

Pressley has been a columnist for a weekly alternative newspaper, and currently volunteers as a radio host for Women's Focus on a New Mexico NPR affiliate. She holds a Master's degree in Public Policy from the London School of Economics, and was appointed by Governor Bill Richardson as New Mexico’s first Women's Health Policy Advisor.