Jehmu Greene

Throughout her career, Jehmu Greene has skillfully worked with the media to build powerful social justice movements. Greene is the former president of Women’s Media Center, a non-profit organization devoted to making women visible and powerful in the media. Through advocacy campaigns, original content, and the Progressive Women’s Voices media and leadership training program, Women’s Media Center amplifies women’s voices and changes the national conversation. Women’s Media Center is directly engaged with the media at all levels to ensure that a diverse group of women is present in newsrooms, on air, in print and online, as sources and subjects.

A frequent commentator on CNN, MSNBC, and Fox News, Greene previously headed Rock the Vote, the largest youth voter registration group in the country. Under Greene’s leadership, Rock the Vote’s membership grew from 1,500 to more than one million. A native of Austin, Greene got her start working in the fertile ground of Texas politics, including an early stint with Governor Ann Richards’ campaign in 1994. Greene later played key roles at both the Center for Policy Alternatives and the Democratic National Committee, where she ran the women’s office. She was an adviser and national surrogate for the Hillary Clinton presidential campaign, and has worked on more than 20 political campaigns at the local, state and national levels. The recipient of numerous awards from organizations including Essence Magazine, the National Conference for Community and Justice, the National Council of Research on Women, the American Association of University Women and others, Greene Greene serves on the Board of Directors of Green Media Toolshed and is a former board member of The American Prospect.

Greene tweets from @jehmu.