Amy Pritchard is a political consultant and social entrepreneur specializing in campaign strategy for electoral candidates, parties, advocacy campaigns, and nonprofit organizations in the United States and globally for political parties, civil society, and socially responsible businesses. She has been a leader in the Democratic and Progressive movement in the US for over 30 years - and has worked internationally on democracy and governance for more than 20. 

 

Amy manages several professional initiatives. Her company AP Campaigns is a voter contact firm where she works for an assortment of high-profile progressive candidates and issue-based campaigns domestically, providing communications, voter contact strategy, and print materials. Some of her current clients include: Senator Elizabeth Warren, Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley, and Governor Jared Polis as well as several national advocacy campaigns. Amy provides training, strategic communications, organizational development, capacity building in the US and globally.

 

Amy is the founder of GAIN Power which is a collaborative multimedia platform for the values shared community of Democratic & Progressive activists and professionals working to impact democracy, elections, and advocacy. GAIN POWER organizes networking space and professional development programs, as well as career opportunities and marketing events dedicated to promoting and celebrating individual creative changemakers, organizations, and campaigns seeking Democratic and Progressive change and justice. 

 

Amy is the founder of Global GAIN, a registered 501c charitable nonprofit organization dedicated to connecting women in politics in the US with Women’s civic empowerment programs and girls education. She currently runs a pilot program in Rwanda where she also maintains a residence. 

 

She was the founder and President of the Board of Democratic GAIN – an association she created in 2003 which has supported Democratic and Progressive Political Professionals - individuals and organizations - through training, professional development, and employment networking.  One of the United States leading experts on initiatives and referenda, Pritchard is a founder of the Ballot Initiative Strategy Center, an organization that provides strategic guidance to progressive ballot measures. From 1997-1998 Pritchard served as the Midwest and Northeast Political Director at the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee. In 2003-4 she took a leave from consulting to serve full time as National Political Director of the Democratic National Committee.

 

 For 10 years, she served as a senior strategist with Mission Control, a political direct mail firm working with Democratic candidates, party committees, ballot measure campaigns, labor unions and non-profit groups. Her services there focus on print communications, direct mail, marketing, digital organizing, skills training, strategic planning, capacity building, and program management. She served as the Voter Contact Director for For Our Future, an Independent Expenditure campaign for the 2016 Presidential Campaign and Senate races in seven states. For Our Future spent over 55 million dollars on field and voter contact working directly with 180 national and local issue-based non-profit organizations (NGOs) in Ohio, Florida, Pennsylvania, Nevada, North Carolina, Wisconsin, and Missouri. 

Internationally she has worked for the National Democratic Institute, Women’s Campaign International, Democracy International, and the McCain Institute in Kosovo, Iraq, Egypt, Libya, Rwanda, Congo, Jordan, Burma, Indonesia, Venezuela, the Netherlands, Nepal and Kenya. Pritchard’s trains political party members and civil society on voter contact, electoral organizing, message development, communications, social media, polling, research, good governance, and more.