Emma Greenman is an accomplished political manager with extensive political and community organizing experience. Leaving behind a Masters program in DC, Emma returned to Minnesota to cut her teeth as a field coordinator on Senator Paul Wellstone's 2002 Campaign and has not left political organizing since. Her broad organizing experience includes working with progressive advocacy organizations, labor unions, non-profits and progressive Democratic political campaigns to run field campaigns, direct grassroots lobbying efforts and build diverse issue-based coalitions. During the 2004 presidential election, she was the Minnesota State Director of the Young Voter Project, managing a statewide field and communications campaign that pioneered new voter contact strategies to target, persuade and turnout 18-34 voters. Emma traveled to the West Bank to work with National Democratic Institute for International Affairs as a political party trainer in anticipation of the January, 2006 Palestinian Legislative Council elections. She created an immigration messaging program for SEIU Minnesota State Council and trained endorsed state legislative candidates during the 2006 legislative campaigns.
More recently, Emma has been focusing on democracy law and public policy. She worked on campaign finance litigation at the Brennan Center for Justice, where she co-wrote an article on increasing the diversity of state judges. She also authored Strengthening the Hands of Voters in the Marketplace of Ideas: Roadmap to Campaign Finance Reform in the Post-WRTL era, published in University of Virginia's Journal of Law and Politics. She continues to work as a political trainer with Wellstone Action and other political organizations.
Emma has Master in Public Administration from Harvard's Kennedy School of Government and a law degree from UC Berkeley School of Law (Boalt Hall).
Last week, the Supreme Court fundamentally altered the campaign finance landscape, and not for the better. Progressives all must play a
role in protecting voter's interest in
elections. Otherwise, don't be surprised to hear - "This election
brought to you by Wal-Mart, United Healthcare and the generous
contributions of big oil."