Tracy Sturdivant
Tracy Sturdivant is the Executive Director of State Voices, an innovative national network helping grassroots organizations win shared policy and civic engagement victories and build long-term power. Built from the states up, State Voices convenes fifteen "state tables" – networks of 501(c)(3) nonprofits.
Before joining State Voices, Sturdivant served as the Vice President for External Affairs at the Center for Progressive Leadership, a national training institute dedicated to developing the next generation of progressive leaders, where she directed national partnership outreach and new state development efforts. Prior to her tenure at CPL, she worked as an Advisor to a philanthropist in Michigan – her home state – to help to build the capacity of the progressive community.
Sturdivant served as the Deputy Director of National Programs and Outreach for People for the American Way/Foundation, developing and implementing outreach strategies to constituency groups and managing voter engagement initiatives, including the Election Protection program. As the Vice President of the White House Project, she promoted women's leadership across sectors by designing and implementing political leadership trainings and programs, including the organization’s signature program: Vote, Run, Lead. As the Program Manager at the National Coalition on Black Civic Participation, she oversaw programs and partnerships to increase black civic engagement, including Black Youth Vote! and the Black Women's Roundtable, NCBCP’s core programs.
Sturdivant made her first entrée into the progressive community as the National Field Organizer for Public Campaign, a non-partisan reform organization dedicated to comprehensive campaign finance reform.
She is currently a Board Member of the Proteus Fund, Public Campaign, Center for Progressive Leadership and the Center for Democracy in the Americas.
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